Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief points at issue: 1) Are processing taxes an unconstitutional delegation of taxing power by reason of the fact that they are fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture? If so, Hoosac Mills will win its case, but AAA will suffer little because last summer AAAmendments were adopted in which Congress set its own processing taxes. 2) Has Congress the power to impose processing taxes? Congress, says the Government, has the power to impose any excise tax to raise revenue. Processing taxes, retorts Hoosac Mills, are not imposed for revenue, but to do indirectly what the Government has no direct power...
...chemical which is spread on the surface of the tooth, painlessly destroys all capacity for pain within 60 to 90 seconds. Dr. Hartman has tested his "desensitizer" on some 500 cases in his school's clinic, succeeded where the best previous methods had left the patient to suffer excruciating pain. Unlike novocain and other anesthetics, the new substance produces no aftereffects, leaves tooth pulp normal and healthy. "It is so simple to use," declared Dr. Hartman, "that the patient is not aware of its application...
...Independence, Kans., police jailed Mrs. Dora Boegler, 79, for a sanity hearing. When Ablino Oley, 14, called her 91-year-old husband Jake a hunchback a year ago, Mrs. Boegler wrote Mrs. Oley, "Tonight I will pray to God to cause your boy to suffer great agony. I'll ask God to burn him with fever and lay the hand of death upon him." Ablino died. When Mrs. Will Ray cut off the Boeglers' cream supply, Mrs. Boegler wrote her, "I will pray for your hogs to get sick and die." The hogs died. Mrs. Boegler warned...
...leniency of Bennett Ryan's sentence because it really isn't a sentence at all. No one can think that a $100 fine inflicts any hardships on the guilty person; no one can think a six months' suspended sentence is actually punishment. The only inconvenience that Ryan will suffer is responsibility to a New York probationary officer to whom he has to report every six months...
...miss productions have been frequent in Chicago this season. Manager Paul Longone has felt obliged to economize on rehearsals. He has let his ensembles suffer for the sake of hiring a few big names. Backstage sensation occurred last week when Conductor Gennaro Papi resigned a week before he was to have conducted the U. S. premiere of Respighi's La Fiamma. Manager Longone issued a blazing statement to the effect that Papi had found it impossible to memorize the relatively difficult score. Papi railed against artistic conditions in general, implied that it was all too easy for mediocre performers...