Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sample Life, How would a Socialist regime affect, say, a lawyer who lives on a 25-acre estate in New Jersey, motors to work in Manhattan, makes $50,000 per year from a corporation practice? First the rental-value tax on his estate would be so burdensome that he would have to dispose of all his land, except that on which his house stood. His servants would all belong to a union; if he wanted his breakfast before 8 or his dinner after 7 he would have to get it himself. He would drive to town in a car built...
...spirit of the Covenant of the League of Nations they intend to exchange views with one another with complete candor concerning, and to keep each other mutually informed of, any questions coming to their notice similar in origin to that now so happily settled at Lausanne which may affect the European regime. It is their hope that other governments will join them in adopting their procedure...
...President's proposal by adding: "In our most powerful arm, the Navy, we are prepared as part of this general program to scrap more than 300,000 tons of existing ships and to forego the right to build more than 50,000 tons. In land material our proposal would affect more than 1,000 heavy mobile guns, approximately 900 tanks, and, in aviation, about 300 bombing airplanes...
...dubious satisfaction of being able to look backward on the worst year in their history, cinema producers had last week finished announcing their production schedules for 1932-33-Added to their other burdens next year will be a Federal amusement tax of 10% on admissions over 40¢. This will affect only 400 of 12,500 U. S. cinema theatres. Squirming together in the same kettle of fish, cinema producers have lately realized that, to keep their own theatres open, they need the assistance of rival producers. Next year they will cooperate more than heretofore by lending high-priced players...
Petitions seeking the continuance of 150-pound football for at least one more year were posted yesterday and Wednesday in several of the Houses. The signers of the document feel that if this team is kept "it will in no way affect House football and will promote a spirit of true sport which has been strongly felt in the two previous years of its existence and which cannot be obtained through intramural sports...