Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Procession of the Sardar from the "Caucasian Sketches" Ippelitov-Ivanov *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas *Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" Debussy *Fifth Hungarian Dance Brahms *Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1 Grieg Morning Mood-Anitra's Dance-In the Hall of the Troll King *Londonderry Air Arranged by Sir Hamilton Harty *Finale (Allegro con fuoco), Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky *The Chocolate Soldier, Selection Oscar Strauss *The Old Refrain Kreisler *March, "Indigo" from "1001 Nights" Johann Strauss *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Musle Store, Harvard Square...
British cars, trucks and gasoline are already so heavily taxed that last year 8½% of the national revenue was taken directly from automotive Britons as such. Sir John soaked them further last week by raising the tax on gasoline from eight pence (16?) per gallon to ninepence (18?) Including the new tax, the British motorist will now pay about 39? for an imperial gallon of gas-equivalent to about 35½for what U. S. citizens call a gallon. Immediately this week British omnibus companies raised their fares, so that Sir John upped gasoline tax really "soaked everybody...
...world headlines Sir John Simon figured last week as the man who had just raised the basic British income tax rate to 27½%-but this was more astonishing to less heavily taxed foreigners than to Britons, for they have been paying 25% anyhow. Excited about 27½%, the New York Post put through a transatlantic telephone call, asked Fleet Street reporters to coax in a few Lodoners at random off the street to be questioned by New York. A van driver (truck driver), George Merrick, said: I think it is a very fair tax for the working...
...subjects are not Pollyannas, last week they did show widespread signs of realizing that the United Kingdom is in more or less of a jam, has no alternative except to buy her way out by rearmament and piling up of food supplies under such shrewd, secretive bargain hunters as Sir John Simon and Neville Chamberlain...
Quietly triumphant, Sir John Simon remarked to friends that once again he had, without throat discomfort, got through a long speech thanks to the mysterious ''elixir'' which Lady Simon always mixes up beforehand. Orator Sir John takes nips of this from a phial, and the potent elixir is gradually diluted as he sips water, about one glass every half hour...