Word: tresillian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most anxious for the "pink slip" law's repeal last week was one whom, as a taxpayer, it could not embarrass. Anyone may turn to a World Almanac, learn that the U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue gets $10,000 a year. But Commissioner Guy Tresillian Helvering knows that the job of compiling the pink slips would put a tremendous extra burden on his Bureau, cost the Government some...
...Passed (48-10-20) the House joint resolution to outlaw the gold payment clause in all public and private debt contracts; sent it to the President. ¶ Confirmed (56-10-21) the nomination of Kansas' Guy Tresillian Helvering to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue. He was hotly opposed by Republicans on the ground that as an ex-Congressman he had wangled many a tax case out of the Treasury. Michigan's Couzens denounced him as a man of "shifty eyes and shifty methods." Kansas' Senator Capper declared that, though always opposed to him politically, he thought Appointee...
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