Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Social Credit, preached the Dean, is "about ready to be embraced by the young people in America," but in older England, "the idea must be put to soak for a while." Evidently afraid Social Credit will fail in the hands of Premier Aberhart, the Dean rapped: "I can assure you that a failure, even the collapse of the Government in Alberta, would not mean the end of Social Credit. ... At present banks create money in the interest of Finance. The people should create money in the interest of Production! You get inflation only if you create money faster than...
...making a personal study of the tax returns of 58 people who in 1932 had incomes of $1,000,000 or more per year. These, he declared with a broad grin and an obvious dig at William Randolph Hearst, whose newspapers had taken to calling the tax bill a "soak the thrifty" measure, were 58 of "the thriftiest people in the U. S." By buying tax-exempt Federal, State and Municipal securities they had managed to avoid paying any taxes whatever on 37% of their income...
...nervous breakdown.* This Congress has worked long and faithfully and well, and, personally, I insist that the Senate bring its business quickly to an end. . . ." More applause. "In my opinion it will be welcomed by the great majority of the people in the whole country. This share-the-wealth, soak-the-rich and save-the-poor legislation, some of which I am in favor of, can wait six months longer, because the rich will not get too rich in a few more months and the wealth can then be shared, and the poor are being taken care...
Meanwhile the Prince was being trailed around Budapest by a file of cars a block long. Finally someone had the bright idea of telling him about Gellert's bath for men only. Edward posted to Gellert's as fast as he could, stripped, had a hot soak. Word spread quickly and all Budapest society flocked to the hotel café. But H. R. H. was satisfied where he was. When tea time came, he too had tea brought into the men's bath, like the morose old Magyars staring at him dully through the mist...
Washington, Dec. 17--The administration is determined to prevent any "soak-the-rich" movement in the 74th Congress from reaching the point where it will cause another stampede by business and industry away from the New Deal, it was learned tonight...