Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Briand's last two Finance Ministers, MM. Loucheur and Doumer (TIME, Dec. 7 et seq.). From the additional taxes voted during the Dou-mer régime, M. Péret figured that he might derive 1,600,000,000 francs. He estimated that by still further drastic governmental economies he could save 500,000,000 francs. There remained a deficit variously estimated at between 3 and 4 billion francs. To meet it, M. Péret proposed to the Chamber Finance Commission...
...settled down to practice in Granite Falls, Minn. The year he arrived they made him attorney of Yellow Medicine County. He had Germans, Scandinavians, Canadians and "Americans" in his bailiwick. For 14 years part of his job was prosecuting blind-pigs, but he was not known as a drastic prohibitionist?rather as a man who "plugged" at his job. He also held the jobs of mayor, city attorney and president of the board of education. He was not a reformer, he was not a handshaker, he was not a "glad-hander," he was not sensational in politics...
Caillaux. Great interest was aroused by the fact that Premier Briand offered the post of Finance Minister to Joseph Caillaux before calling in M. Peret. The temperamental Caillaux declined, saying that he would have to hold the premiership as well in order to put through the drastic reforms which he now deems necessary. He was reported to have declared bitterly that under no circumstances would he enter a Cabinet with War Minister Painleve, who, as Premier, recently booted M. Caillaux (then Finance Minister) into the cold. (TIME...
...forward pass ruling. "I think the change is a good one," he answered. "It will provide a check on exercise use of the forward pass in the closing minutes of a game; but, with the forward pass as a definite offensive unit of the game, it may prove rather drastic for the losing team...
After a week of drastic emendation the estimated yield of the measure had been increased from 1,600,000,000 francs to 4,985,000,000?still at least one billion short of Government requirements. As expected, the increase was obtained by grafting on the bill Finance Minister Doumer's hated "indirect taxes" (TIME, Feb. 1 et ante) although the Chamber has been refusing for weeks to down this bitter dose. As the week ended, the Senate completed its salvage work and sent the bill back to the Chamber...