Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news at the White House and the Treasury. Congress, at President Hoover's order, cut the normal income tax rate by 1% for 1929 to bolster business. Business did not respond to the cut. Federal receipts ran down hill. Last week Treasury officials compiled figures, frankly told Pressmen that they were quite helpless about a continuation of the 1% reduction for 1930 incomes. For the first 50 days of this fiscal year, U. S. revenue had fallen off $64,261,211 compared with last year, while expenditures had risen some $29,000,000. Customs receipts had been almost halved...
...Duke of York, still waiting (together with telephone operators, pressmen, doctors and Home Secretary John Robert Clynes) at Glamis Castle for the birth of a possible son and heir (TIME, Aug. 11), played golf with his father-in-law, the Earl of Strathmore...
...citing the fact that the motorman had moved his tractor plant to Ireland, where he makes his machines at 60% of the U. S. cost and imported them to this country duty-free as agricultural implements. But labor was not unanimous. George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen's Union of North America, last week flayed the bill as "the most atrocious and indefensible tariff revision ever considered by Congress...
Roaring, grunting, shouting, squeaking, last week Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows opened its 1930 season in New York's Bronx Coliseum. Like the perennial sea serpent story and the yarn of the rat that nibbled the baby, Manhattan pressmen took their cue, played up Circus because Circus is always news...
Alert and sensational, the 60-year-old Graphic is edited by Alan John Bott. British pressmen can find a striking similarity between Editor Bott's journalistic policies and his Wartime activities. After having served in the Artillery and Royal Flying Corps in France and Mesopotamia, he entered the British espionage system. Captured by the Turks in 1918, he dramatically escaped across the Black Sea into Russia, whence he made his way through Bulgaria to Salonika. For his Turk-spying he was given the Military Cross with bar. Gleaning two bits of information where but one guarded bit grew before...