Word: talks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a 185-million-dollar surplus showing on the Treasury's books for fiscal 1928, talk of income tax reduction waxed in Washington last week. President Hoover commented cautiously: "We are giving careful study to the possibility. . . . We all hope that the situation may work out. . . ." Secretary of the Treasury Mellon: "There may be reasons against it." Chairman Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee: "Nothing doing!" Tennessee's Senator McKellar: "Such a surplus would not have been possible but for the amendment introduced by me" (publicity for tax refunds...
...huge exports, no longer needs protection. Motormen Henry Ford, Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., Alvan Macauley (Packard, National Automotive Chamber of Commerce) and Walter C. White, were among those invited to step forward and give their views on this change. When they failed to make prompt response, there was committee talk of subpoenaing them...
...Czechoslovak spy was arrested in Hungary last week. The incident emptied summer hotels, stopped trains, brought talk...
...such lines as ''We are two dots in the loneliness" and "The night by the oasis when I read in your eyes." The cast, especially Gilbert Emery as one of those film detectives who combine social welfare work with their profession, and Lois Moran, act and talk competently and at times with distinction. Somehow they subdue the silliness of their material enough to make it distantly credible. The scenarist has retained continuity in spite of the propensity which the villain shares with the hero of traveling amazing distances for very little reason. Silliest shot: love among the camels...
Ford. Interviewed by Electrical World, Henry Ford preached frank monopolism. "People talk about a power trust," said he. "I only wish that there actually were a power trust, a central directing organization for the development of every power source in the country." He saw no evil in exploitation of power resources for private profit. "The real profit," said he, "is not what the promoters get but what the country gets...