Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner had the regimented millions of Berlin (see p. 18) tramped home from Tempelhof Field to soak their tired feet than they had real news to read in their papers. Dissatisfied with the results of the famed Reichstag Fire trial in which all but one of the five defendants were acquitted, the Nazi government announced the establishment of a new "People's Court" to take all cases of high treason from the penal division of the Supreme Court...
...Harrison, no longer cast as a gadfly, had to play the heavy, as Chairman of the Finance Committee had to try to hold in check a Senate suddenly eager for taxes, taxes, more faxes. Sometimes the Progressives led by La Follette, Nye and Norris harried him with plans to soak the rich, to pile up surtaxes and estate taxes. Sometimes Couzens was after him to soak not the rich alone but all taxpayers in order to pay another small fraction of the huge expenses of the New Deal...
...long as the income tax is the principal source of tax revenues, the treasury will benefit from a system of concentrated wealth or earning power, especially since in recent years Congress has followed the soak-the-rich policy rather than to set up any general sales...
...authors of these proposals are seven members of the Ways & Means Committee headed by Representative Samuel Billingsley Hill of Waterville, Wash. Democrat Hill, who got to Congress in 1923 by plumping for the soldier bonus and promising to "soak the rich," is not so radical as he sounded ten years ago. Today he is even rated as a "conservative with progressive leanings." The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington and the Hill Bill to boost tariffs to compensate for depreciated foreign currencies have been his most noted concerns...
...that epoch preceding and overlapping the Roosevelt regime, the eyes of a million Americans would have been straining impatiently for the week's issue of McClure's or Munsey's to soak up eagerly the revelations of Lincoln Steffens on this latest evidence of the decay of the 'System,' as he had named it. Following his hurried, jumpy, journalistic style through its thorough-going exploration of the intricacies and brazen sin of municipal graft. Steffens's audience would read avidly to the last word, throw up its hands in horror at the wickedness of the Big City, make...