Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gang-busting Judge Wilkerson not only received his appointment but the backing of the Illinois Congressional delegation of both parties, Senators Lewis and Glenn, Mayor Cermak of Chicago, the Chicago Bar Association, Attorney General Mitchell, President Melvin Alvah Traylor of Chicago's First National Bank and a host of solid citizens. In contesting Judge Wilkerson's appointment to a higher court. Labor found itself unhappily sided with Organized Crime...
...loyal lingerers from the Independents' early days, plus a few violent, ably drawn cartoons by persons who take advantage of the Independents' liberality to exhibit political propaganda. Critics noted that the founders of modernism are already sufficiently venerable to have direct copyists. Director Warren Wheelock produced a solid canvas of "Men Working'' in precisely the mood and manner of rotund Diego Rivera. Artist Dmitry Wiener exhibited an angular confection entitled "Exotique" (see cuts) that only lacked Pablo Picasso's acute sense of color to be exactly like the great Spanish experimenter's latest abstractions...
...excise ("nuisance") taxes on a few commodities were a limited form of sales tax. Such conservative Republican Senators as Utah's Smoot and Pennsylvania's Reed have from time to time proposed it as an equitable levy but have never pushed it because of what appeared to be a solid U. S. tradition against direct Federal taxes on everybody. Any wealthy man who agitated for a sales tax was suspected of trying to wriggle out of income taxes. Chief sponsor for the current Sales Tax was a wealthy capitalist, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose papers attempted to convince their poor...
Their faces gleaming from soap & water, their hair scrupulously combed, 67 flushed old men and 67 excited old women waited in the transepts of Westminster Abbey last week. The organ groaned magnificently. Down the aisle stalked a scarlet-&-gold Yeoman of the Guard bearing on his head a solid gold platter piled high with purses of scarlet and white leather. Behind the Yeoman walked King George, Queen Mary and the King's Almoner, the Very Rev. J. Armitage Robinson whose other duties include the Deanship of Wells Cathedral...
...became Speaker, his prestige has increased greatly among his colleagues because of his evident impartiality and fairness. Northern Democratic Congressmen find no reason to complain of any slights. In fact they will tell you that they like him more than ever. And although he is a product of the Solid South, they seem to consider him more in the light of a Westerner...