Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formal host of the Congress is the American Philosophical Society." You have made a pardonable confusion between the American Philosophical Society and the American Philosophical Association. The former was founded by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1744. In that age, a "philosophical" society was one devoted to all the special sciences, including the mathematical, the physical and the biological. The Society founded by Franklin still covers this wide field, and still meets in Philadelphia. The American Philosophical Association, on the other hand, is our national organization of philosophers in the sense in which that term is used today. It meets...
...matter of economy the President last week first told the press that he was concerned about the special appropriations which are being demanded. He recommended a $300,000,000 reduction of taxes, but Congress reduced taxes nearly $70,000,000 beyond that figure and now all sorts of demands for special appropriations are being made: some $23,000,000 for Spanish War veterans' pensions, some $72,000,000 for Civil War veterans, some $50,000,000 for World War veterans, about $18,000,000 for Civil Service retirements. These bills, he intimated, would have to be trimmed so that...
...trial may come this spring or next fall. If this spring, the President may call a special session of the Senate to meet after Congress adjourns. Mr. Cummins suggested this to the Court, and Mr. Borah doubted its legality. Senator Williams of Missouri then asked what court had power to review the Senate's act. To this Mr. Cummins made answer...
That title is only the last on an imposing list: Bencher of the Middle Temple (1904); Member of Parliament from Reading (1904-13); Knight (1910); Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-21); Baron (1914); President of the Anglo-French Loan Commission to the U. S. (1915); Viscount Reading (1916); Special Envoy to the U. S. (1917); Viscount Erleigh and Earl of Reading (1917); High Commissioner and Special Ambassador to the U. S. (1918); Viceroy and Governor General of India (1921-26) (TIME, April...
...Special Taxes. Because of this fact, Mr. Churchill declared that he was unable to take off any of the special taxes imposed last year, such as the tax on beer. Instead he found it necessary to propose other taxes, chiefly a tax of 5% on all legal betting (at the race courses...