Word: whethers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hanes and Morgenthau. The face-saving compromise (influenced in part by press and Congressional pressure) was effected at a White House luncheon topped off by peach shortcake. The President and Tax Revisionist Pat Harrison (who had huffily told Mr. Roosevelt he was going to get a new tax bill whether he liked it or not) were brought together by Jimmy Byrnes, the slickest compromiser in the Senate. Giving in to an extent almost unknown during the New Deal, Mr. Roosevelt finally told Henry ("Henny-Penny"), Morgenthau it was all right if he wanted to tell the Congressmen to remove certain...
...Coach Barnaby's squad, Walt Muther, may be sent as an alternate. The agreement is that both Harvard and Yale provide three men for the squad, and it has not been definitely decided whether or not Muther will...
...Whether she's living or whether she's dead...
...Whether a saint or an old dopehead...
...average annual investment of $18.3 billions in new plant and equipment. In 1930-36 annual income averaged only $53 billions (it is now around $65 billions) and only $8.6 billions were invested in new capital goods. Professor Hansen wasted no time over economists' chicken & egg dilemma whether a big national income begets big investments in new capital or vice versa. He blamed the slump in national income squarely on the slump in capital investment...