Word: slash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slash. This week, Senator Arthur Vandenberg's Foreign Relations Committee sat down to write the bill it will present to the Senate. One thing was sure: ERP would not be administered by the State Department. Confided one Senator: "The people in State have no business competence and a great talent for bitching things...
...settled comfortably in the chair he had been occupying since Dec. 27. He liked his new job all right, but not his paycheck ($10,000 a year). By quitting as radio director of the Washington Post and chief of its radio station WINX, he had taken a "terrific slash" in salary, "more than...
...Chairman Knutson reacted by subjecting his witness to a day-Jong badgering. Other Republicans were quick to realize that John Snyder was broadening a hint already made by the President: the Knutson bill, as it stood, would be vetoed. Good & scared, they began to talk of bringing the tax slash down to around $4 billion. At week's end, tax-wise Muley Doughton conceded that such a modification might well pick up enough Democratic votes to override a veto...
Matched against the Republican proposals, however, Truman's suggestions may be beneficial, admitted Professor of Economics Seymour E. Harris '20. "It achieves its good objectives of not reducing the tax too much," he commented. "It is certainly less inflationary than Kuntson's 20 percent slash...
...Banging Gavel. But before its final passage, interim aid had rough going. In the House, Republican isolationists had worked furiously to slash or hamstring the bill. Majority Leader Charlie Halleck of Indiana led the attack...