Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collected in taxes. Session III of the 76th Congress will face a probable new Army appropriation of about $1,700,000,000, a new Navy appropriation of about $1,300,000,000, plus a $275,000,000 deficiency appropriation. To meet this bill for national defense, while continuing to spend many millions on relief, works, etc., the U. S. Treasury must raise new taxes, somehow, somewhere. And 1940 is an election year. To raise new taxes, Congress must do two politically unpalatable things: 1) broaden the income-tax structure, by lowering the tax-exemption rate to include thousands...
Bill Coleman continues to operate at the quarterback post, and Joe Gardella rates the opening call over Fran Lee at wingback. This switch does not mean that Spreyer will not spend a lot of time at tailback tomorrow, because he will move over there from his present bucking job as soon as Macdonald needs relief...
...very spirit of the holiday has been damaged. An undergraduate wishing to spend a day of prayer and reunion around the family turkey in New York will find he is a week too late. If he wants to use his Thursday as a warm-up for the Yale week-end, he is forced to go to classes on the twenty-third. And when, a week later, he bangs on the door of Sever or Emerson, he will be refused admittance--refused the centuries-old tradition of study treasured by Harvard...
Yale teachers can now spend a maximum of nine years on non-permanent tenure: four years as an instructor, and five years as an assistant professor...
Julian Green is a Paris-born Southerner who has preferred to spend most of his 39 years in France, and to write in French. His novels are disturbing, as distinguished, and as subtly disciplined as the dreams they resemble. Last week he set beside them selections from a journal (1928-39) in the editing of which his chief concern has been "to interest a reader whom doubtless I shall never meet."† As frequently happens in the handling of serious work in the U. S., his publishers tried by various jacket ruses to disguise the book as a popular commodity...