Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States, to avoid suspicion of imperialism, has merely been abstaining until conditions in Cuba shout for a mediator, certainly the time for intervention is now propitious. To ignore such wholesale slaughter as has recently taken place on Havana streets will extract what few teeth the much interpreted Platt Amendment has left, and establish a precedent which will make intervention in Cuba by the United States at any future date difficult or impossible...
...emergency budget and the regular budget will mean a $4,000,000,000 deficit for the fiscal year ending next June. The effort is to cut that deficit down materially by trying to avoid the same amount of emergency expenditures in the fiscal year ending in June, 1935. Announcement of the estimated emergency budget will be made around the first of the year, but Congress will have the final say as to its size...
...Chamber can restore stability, but only by wholesale cuts in veterans' pensions and civil servants' salaries, by a drastic drive against chronic French income tax frauds, and by imposing new taxes so crushing that the Chamber seemed likely to balk. Warning that if France wants to avoid inflation, the Frenchman's nightmare, she must make heroic sacrifices, M. Germain-Martin said...
...inadvertently brought home a great truth to the men who buy & sell the nation's securities: that whether or not Mayor O'Brien's taxes were imposed, security dealers would be far better off in New Jersey than in New York State, 1) They would avoid New York State's transfer taxes which contributed $31,000,000 to Governor Lehman's budget even in the last lean year. 2) All security dealers who lived in New Jersey and all those who chose to move there would avoid the New York State income tax (New Jersey...
...bulk of the market was in Newark. Still unsettled last week was the prime point of whether firms, most of which have only one floor member, could use a nonmember alternate. With an alternate on the New York floor and the regular member in Newark, the house would avoid the use of "$2 brokers" who execute orders for other members. The $2 brokers fought the alternate plan tooth & nail. Wall Street was sure that without the burden of New York State taxes trading volume would jump...