Word: sufferer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are times when a member of one House wishes to eat with a friend in another House. Under the present regulation of the Harvard dining halls a man is constrained other to forego his pleasure or to consider himself an uninvited guest and suffer the embarrassment of knowing that he is causing his host a not inconsiderable expense. Conversely, the extra charges involved in entertaining guests often prevent a House resident from inviting friends to dine with...
Articles which may have to suffer imposition of the luxury tax are: automobiles (a tax eliminated in the 1928 Revenue Act over the protest of Secretary Mellon), theatre & cinema tickets (no tax now exists on tickets worth less than $3), matches, radios, cigarets. Criticism of luxury levy was not long forthcoming. "It is perfectly ridiculous!" scoffed fiscal-minded Senator McNary of Oregon...
...suggesting a car cartel, M. Citroen said he did not propose to start an invasion of the U. S. market, merely wanted "a binding agreement which would prevent competition in such severe form that manufacturers would suffer." If it should materialize, the cartel would necessitate the formation of an export association in the U. S., could not affect competition in the domestic market...
...pass other laws, necessitating other special sessions of legislatures if anything is to be done to help cotton this year. . . . Governor Gardner knew that cotton prohibition in the South would play into the hands of the Egypt, Russia et al; he knew the economic loss the South would suffer from no cotton; loss from employment in gins, plow hands, cotton pickers, truck drivers, warehouses, cotton buyers of loss employment in gins, plow hands, cotton pickers, truck drivers, warehouses, cotton buyers. He knew that the South would miss the money its crop brings in - around $500,000,000 this year...
...Socialist all my life and I will always remain one!'' he was heard to shout. "The national emergency compelled me to take the steps I have taken! ... If the crisis had not been met, the classes I represent-the Labor classes- would have been the first to suffer...