Word: talking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Franklin Roosevelt began to talk of collecting Federal income taxes on salaries of State & municipal officials (at the same time suggesting reciprocal tax powers for the States), he was primarily seeking new sources of Federal revenue. The way to such a source was apparently opened last year by the Supreme Court's ruling that the U. S. might tax the pay of employes of the Port of New York Authority and similar quasi-public bodies (TIME, June...
...German leaders hit back hard at nations which protested the Dictator's recent land grabs, and the German press specialized in attacks on Britain for her leadership in the Stop Hitler movement. Said Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels: "Talk about humanitarianism and morals is simply disgusting to us." The Berliner Lokalanzeiger used an entire page to describe British "falsehood and hypocrisy, violation of rights and oppression, robbery and atrocity of every sort." Der Angriff ran in installments a piece on the Boer War subtitled: "Inhumanities Britain Has on Her Conscience." The Führer's Volkischer Beobachter described...
...Greene: "I must beg of you, Mr. Savile, that you will not refer to the English Church as if it were some female of your acquaintance. I tell you, I cannot digest my dinner if you will talk...
...young Catholic University executive (TIME, Feb. 13), went on the radio with a scholarly speech detailing the pro-Jewish policies of the Popes, from the earliest (the first Pope, St. Peter, and several of his immediate successors were born Jews) to the late Pius XL Father Sheehy's talk was made under the auspices of a new, interfaith Council Against Intolerance in America...
Biggest gift was $586,000 to Boston University to help build a new business-school building. Last week Josiah Hayden repaired to B. U., sat himself in a chair, beamed as he heard money make silky talk. Up to speak at founders' day exercises rose B. U.'s President Daniel L. Marsh. Mr. Marsh delivered a 40-minute effusion on "one of the most successful, dynamic and achieving lives that America has yet produced-the life of Charles Hayden...