Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury. Ten years ago Prohibition enforcement was given to the Treasury chiefly because Congress did not know where else to put it. For years that Department had collected the internal revenue tax on liquor, had supervised tax-free denatured alcohol for industry. To Congress it seemed but one step from the Treasury's ancient war on tax-evading moonshiners to full liquor suppression...
...First step in last week's deal was segregation of the Van Sweringen-controlled Erie Railroad's coal properties to a new holding corporation, Pittston Co. Stock in the Pittston Co. will soon be offered to Erie stockholders, thus placing its control outside the railroad. But the Van Sweringens' promise to take up their pro rata share of stock and to underwrite any remaining shares, will assure identity of management. As one of its first moves, the new Pittston Co. proceeded to buy control of U. S. Distributing Corp., owner of Wyoming coal mines and also...
Progress according to ability, rather than by the old lock-step system...
...statute books of this country, demand rejuvenation. In the minds of many people, there will always be a need for anti-vice societies of one kind or another despite their tactics, until there is efficient administration of a modernized body of law to take their place. The first step towards their eventual abolition must be taken by the legislators of the state...
Three thousand copies of "What Harvard Teaches", a four page leaflet with a frontispiece caricaturing President Lowell doling out pennies to a scrubwoman, will be distributed to undergraduates and shopkeepers in Harvard Square this afternoon by the Socialist Club of the University. This is the initial step, according to the president of the club, in a well-defined campaign in support of old age pensions and unemployment insurance...