Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unburied, still restless is the antique lie about Salem witch-burning. Many a New England witch suspect was hanged; one (Giles Cory of Salem) was pressed to death; none was burned...
Rescind the "rumpled pants," and I'll still be a TIME booster...
...complained in a letter to Mr. Hull that the proposed Argentine trade agreement would injure the U. S. farmer and cattleman. Last week he got back a restrained but politely savage answer that it was "folly compounded" for farm spokesmen in the light of the Smoot-Hawley tariff experience, "still to cling to the delusion that the farmer has something to gain from embargo or tariffs...
What Mr. Morgenthau said he was not worrying about was the U. S. public debt, still climbing to alltime highs, now teetering at more than $41,168,000,000. Another thing he was presumably not worrying about was the U. S. law which flatly forbids the public debt to go over $45,000,000,000. Asked what he would do if & when the 1940 fiscal tide lapped the public debt up around King Canute Congress' shoes, he said: "I'm not going to draw checks one penny over the regular authority...
Congressional Canutes or no, the tide of national debt was still mounting. In the fiscal year 1939 the U. S. spent $3,600,000,000 more than was 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...