Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Administration wants repealed. Mr. Green fought the repeal because he thought it would benefit only a small class of rich people; because he thought taxes on estates are too easily evaded when left to the States to levy*and because it irks him to see fortunes made in the West and taken East to be spent, enjoyed, inherited. Lately, however, Iowa has favored repealing the inheritance tax, too. Pressure from behind as well as above persuaded Mr. Green to accept a post which he refused last year. Awaiting the Senate's confirmation in his new office, Mr. Green told...
...Pensendorfer factory at West Berlin, N. J., the workmen need have no names. They have only three rules to obey: keep straight, shun booze, work hard. Ex-convicts skilled at woodworking are welcome at West Berlin...
...Passed Senator Johnson's resolution for an investigation of bituminous coal mining and strike conditions in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio. Chairman Watson of the Interstate Commerce Committee appointed Senators Gooding, Pine, Wheeler, Metcalf and Wagner to visit the mines, Senator Couzens refusing to join in what he called "a hippodrome," "a circus performance...
...Guardia: "No. I do not yield to the gentleman from Florida. Florida is so happily situated near the West Indies that you can get all the pure liquor you want and it is hypocritical to take any stand as to law enforcement...
...harmlessly affected manner to give the man an air of privacy," gave a reading of his works in accustomed eccentric style. A large guitar was hung around his neck; at the end of his reading, he took this and strummed it while he sang old songs about the West...