Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professional points of view. . . . Pacifist associations such as the Ligue des Combattants de la Paix. the Ligue Internationale des Jeunes la Guerre, the Ligue Populaire des Reésistants a là Guerre, etc. believe that refusal to bear or manufacture arms is the most effective way to avoid war.∙ Officials belonging to the Departments of Education, Finance, and Posts & Telegraphs have openly shown their sympathy with 'conscientious objectors' who have recently been sentenced...
...Glens Falls, N. Y., Harry Caswell, handcuffed to the wheel of an automobile in a 100-hour driving endurance test, drove into a barn to avoid a rainstorm. The backfire of his motor set ten tons of hay ablaze. As the flames licked at his clothes, he picked the lock of his manacles with a hairpin, escaped...
...director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical & Electrical Chemistry in Berlin. He invented the important synthesis of atmospheric nitrogen and hydrogen into ammonia which supplied Germany with explosives and fertilizers during the War. Like Nobel Laureate Albert Einstein, Laureates Haber and Franck resigned their German jobs to avoid Adolf Hitler's white pogrom...
...result would have been "extremely impolitic." C. C. N. Y. has enough troubles anyway. Last week a C. C. N. Y. student named Jacob Itzkowitz appeared before a Brooklyn justice named Charles E. Russell. He wished to reassume the name Bakur which his grandfather had given up to avoid military service.† Justice Russell sternly denied Jacob Itzkowitz's application, launched a brisk denunciation of C. C. N. Y. as a place where the taxpayers, "the orderly and decent element, are educating a bunch of young Communists and Socialists." At once C. C. N. Y.'s president, alumni...
Income Taxes. Q. Did Morgan use the admission of S. Parker Gilbert to partnership as a means of establishing a $21,000,000 loss to avoid paying income taxes in 1931, 1932 and 1933? A. For 20 years the firm has always taken profits or losses by sales of assets every time a new partner was admitted or old partners retired; actually the firm had other losses in 1931 and 1932 so that no taxes would have been paid even without establishment of the $21,000,000 loss.∙ Q. Has not the firm used the capital gains and losses...