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...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...
...best labor speeches ever made before NRA-a speech perfect in grammar, literate in expression, temperate in tone, earnest in thought. Only his closest friends knew that his wife, a onetime Iowa school teacher, had spent years straining coarseness and vulgarity from his diction, prodding him to soak his mind in good literature. Though he does not strut his learning...
...through dreary pages on the National Recovery Act. But for the present, the prospect of a large overproduction of general and special Hueyana brings up graver problems of government control than does a wheat surplus. One wonders who pays for the rain of Huey pamphlets which is meant to soak the rich...
...were fashioned from ivory and gold by Dr. John Greenwood of New York who had considerable correspondence with the toothless President about them. Dr. Greenwood advised rubbing the ivories with a cedar stick or chalk if they got too dark from port wine. If they got light, he said, soak them in broth, liquor or porter...