Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Birth Control League, Inc.received from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C. on March 2, 1938 a ruling that the League is exempt from Federal Income Tax under Section 101 (6) of the 1936 Revenue Act, and that contributions to the League are deductible by individual donors in arriving at their taxable net income. This exemption ruling continues in force. At least two of the leading tax service publications noted the ruling in 1938, but evidently it was not observed in the 1939 revision of Simon & Schuster's manual, Your Income Tax, which you reviewed...
...believe in the Social Security Act. I believe in old-age pensions. I think we have to deal that way with many things. I believe in the National Youth Administration, never as a fundamental answer, but simply as something which gives hope, which gives perhaps a suggestion which might be followed by communities; never because the Federal Government could answer the whole problem of the unemployment of youth by a Youth Administration or WPA. It can't be done. These are stopgaps. We bought ourselves time to think. That is what we have done...
...Roosevelt's second principal reason for his plea for good will on the labor front was based entirely on his desire for the success of his progressive measures. Without the backing of the unions, the permanence of the Wagner Act and its prodigy, the N. L. R. B., would be in doubt," he continued...
Nixon further stated that although the disagreement over the decisions of the labor Board seems to be without backing facts, the life of the act would be in doubt unless the two workers' factions come to terms...
James Morcom's idea of a Fourteenth Century castle looks like a clapboarded New England barn, and his revolving set often does not fit the scene, sequences. Millia Davenport's costumes never get beyond the phony chain-mail stage, and her costume for Hotspur's wife in the first act is one of the most atrocious bits of ugly design to appear for some time...