Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...avoid increasing taxation by avoiding new Government expenses...
...never by any chance deposits it in his own bank-if he has one. This is partly due to the fact that French law only allows him 24 hours to make legal declaration of default on checks and commercial bills. The Government has proposed, in order to help avoid further inflation, to popularize the check by passing...
Scarcely a painter in all the history of Art has been so vilified, so passionately abhorred as Paul Cezanne (1839-1906). The salons were closed to him; his private exhibitions were succès de scandale; through connivance with the heirs, the Louvre managed to avoid owning the three paintings by him in the Caillebotte collection...
There has been agitation in London to drop the Bank of England's rate to 3½ or under to meet New York's cut, and thereby avoid losing financial business to America. More experienced bankers, on the other band, declare this would simply inflate the pound sterling further, and that if the Bank rate is changed at all, it should be moved upwards rather than down...
...before July 1 (date when new Immigration Law becomes effective). The statement read in part: "Most of the applicants for passage to the United States are persons who have been visiting in Japan and are anxious to return now to the United States in order to avoid any question as to their status as returning immigrants under the changed regulations which come into force July...