Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ve got to do it," dolefully declared Senator Smoot, chairman of the Finance Committee. "Everyone knows we must raise more money." Senator Watson, Republican leader, was almost tearful when he announced: "Much as I am personally sorry for it, it seems that some form of tax legislation will be necessary." Senator Fess, G. O. P. chairman,* declared: "The budget must be balanced even if we are compelled to take drastic measures such as was done in England." Only die-hard dissenter among important Republicans was ultra-conservative Congressman Hawley, chairman of the last House Ways & Means Committee. Moaned...
...international debt moratorium. ... He intervened . . . directed . . . saved . . . settled. . . . The President is now confronted with a serious fiscal situation in the Government itself. . . . Most anyone can suggest a plan for taking money out of the Treasury but no one has suggested a plan for putting more money in. ... I've been told that if the President proposes an increase in taxes he will be defeated for reelection. The President is more concerned with the welfare of this nation than he is with his own political future...
...with us tonight. Waving a copy of the U. S. Constitution Governor Murray declared: "The next President must not be reared in the shadow of Wall Street. Such a man has no more conception of the Mississippi Valley than Satan has of the Kingdom of Heaven. . . . We've got to quit voting for lodges and churches and the geography that runs along the Harlem River and has a connection with Europe. . . . The common people are like a mule, young and vigorous but chained to a post so tight it can't move. I'm for breaking that...
...Turkey's famed Golden Horn (a dirty stretch of water flanked by palaces and woods). Last week Mehmed Ali Bey scratched his woolly poll and complained to a U. S. correspondent: "Neither I nor my wife nor my children can find good jobs in Turkey. Sure we've got jobs, but they are no good. I even had to sell my dictionary. My sons are digging sewers. My daughters are cooks. Me? Well, every day I fish out near where this Mr. Trotsky lives...
...telling me how much that fellow made. It is unbelievable; the public has no idea. It's partly the hard times, of course, that killed the game. But the public seems to have lost interest as well. . . . Oh, I suppose I'll stick to aviation. I've had some offers...