Word: avoiders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a broad grin and an obvious dig at William Randolph Hearst, whose newspapers had taken to calling the tax bill a "soak the thrifty" measure, were 58 of "the thriftiest people in the U. S." By buying tax-exempt Federal, State and Municipal securities they had managed to avoid paying any taxes whatever on 37% of their income...
Businessmen who want to avoid unwelcome callers announce that they are busy, can see no one who has not an appointment. The U. S. Senate has a better system. By refusing to tear off the top sheet on its legislative appointment pad, it can make one day last indefinitely, keep unwelcome bills at bay for weeks. Thus on the evening of May 13 the Senate by recessing instead of adjourning refused to tear off the top sheet of its pad, and the legislative day went gaily on. The Senate passed the Labor Relations Bill, gave NRA a shadow-lease...
...German Fascism attacks the national independence and unity of small independent States in Europe, a war waged by the national bourgeoisie of these States will be a just war. in which proletarians and Communists cannot avoid taking part...
...alien illegally in the U. S., he could not apply for relief. The couple moved to the New Jersey shore of the Hudson River, where they went on starving. They rigged up a tent, pitched it each night in Palisades Interstate Park, struck it at dawn to avoid arrest for vagrancy. George picked up odd jobs. When the tent began to fall apart and bad weather set in last week, the Umbachs moved to a 4-ft. cement culvert that drains rainwater from the Palisades slopes into the Hudson...
...sweltering days they wrestled with such subjects as how and when to stabilize world currencies; how to establish a "Supreme Court" for banking & currency; "trial marriage" of the dollar and pound sterling; when to return to the gold standard; how to avoid returning to the gold standard. James David Mooney, General Motors' famed vice president in charge of exports, gave a few quick and cogent suggestions for reviving world trade, without attracting serious attention. After presiding at one session of the conference President Harper Sibley of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce politely surmised: "If all economists were laid...