Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Columbia's black-haired young President William S. Paley gave as his reason for the change, which will deprive Colum bia of revenue estimated at more than $10,000 per week, the desire to avoid "re sponsibility ... of allotting time on a commercial basis to different religions and different preachers." But another reason was imputed to Columbia last week by Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Detroit, whose weekly talk over a 16-station hook-up was a Columbia religious feature last year. Father Coughlin several years ago began to be heard over...
Plebiscite. It did not seem possible for hard-ridden Germany to avoid some sort of crisis for more than a few days. No sooner had the reopening of the banks passed off quietly than German statesmen were up to their necks on the problem of the Prussian plebiscite...
Exiled from Paris by his doctors to avoid a nervous breakdown. France's Foreign Minister Aristide Briand found quiet refuge at his farm near Cocherel, Normandy. There on a small platform built over a branch of the Eure River. Brer Briand stays the day long in the shade of a tree, angling for perch and pike...
...avoid the Federal inheritance tax many a wealthy man used to deed over most of his property to his intended heirs when he felt death overtaking him. So widespread became this type of tax evasion that Congress in 1926 amended the Internal Revenue Laws by inserting a provision (Section 302C) that all such gifts within two years of death were presumably made to cheat the U. S. Treasury and must be taxed as part of the final estate. Last week in Manhattan U. S. District Judge Alfred Conkling Coxe declared Section 302C unconstitutional as it deprived heirs of their property...
...almost 9% of the total gasoline and over 12% of the total lubricants business, in the U. S. market. As approved, the merger differs in two important respects from the original proposal: 1) the new company is known as Socony-Vacuum Corp. instead of General Petroleum Corp. (Reason: to avoid confusion with Socony's subsidiary, General Petroleum Corp. of California.); 2) the original ratio of share exchange (three Socony shares to one Vacuum) was changed to two and a half Socony shares for one,Vacuum (Reason: protests of a lusty group of Socony's California stockholders...