Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Reed Hospital was the next stop. Bern of War, laid up with an ocular infection, was sitting up but he could not do any business. With Secretary Hull in Montevideo, Postmaster General Farley in Europe, two clays later the President discovered that for the first time in his Administration he could hold no Friday Cabinet meeting. There was no quorum. ¶Lewis Douglas went to the White House to talk Budget. He figured the Government would take in 3½ billions next year, disburse 2½ billions normally, have a billion left over to reduce the national debt...
...some ideas of his own. Most popular was reduction of levies on earned income. Most novel proposal was to make compulsory a single joint return by man & wife. This, estimated Professor Magill, would add $40,000,000 to the U. S. income, and would put a stop to the practice whereby a husband or wife transfers taxable assets to the spouse with a lower income to avoid the heavy surtaxes in the high brackets. Again Banker Mitchell was made a horrid example...
...Cinemactor Tracy made this picture before going to Mexico City where he made news resulting in the cancellation of his contract by MGM. To TIME'S version of the affair (TIME, Dec. 4), Mr. Tracy telegraphed a correction as follows: "YOUR STORY ON MEXICO INCIDENT INACCURATE AND UNTRUE STOP MY REPUTATION HAS BEEN DAMAGED BY A FALSE CHARGE IN YOUR PUBLICATION STOP PUBLIC HAD BEEN GIVEN TRUE AND CORRECTED VERSION AND NOW YOUR LIBELOUS STORY OVERSHADOWS ALL PREVIOUS ONES STOP I REFER YOU TO LOS ANGELES TIMES OF DEC. 3 WHICH CLIMAXES ALL VERSIONS AND GIVES TRUE...
...PEOPLE LISTENING IN MY HOUSE ALL VERY ENTHUSIASTIC STOP ROOSEVELT IMPERSONATION EXTREMELY GOOD MADE ME WANT MORE ABOUT AMERICAN POLITICS...
...desired to save money, no doubt some economics are possible. In fact, two possible economics might be considered. The first of these would be to stop tutoring Sophomores taking introductory courses in their fields of concentration. Another possible means of saving would be to make the use of the Tutorial System optional for men on probation and perhaps for other men in low-standing. Neither of these economics would weaken the System...