Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from paying federal tax so long as they distributed their capital gains and at least 90% of their dividend income to shareholders. Since the funds pay out all their earnings, this in effect frees them from paying taxes. In return for this concession, Griswold and the funds agreed to back other business tax proposals that President Roosevelt wanted. Griswold also helped draft the regulatory laws for the industry that came...
...vendetta against the Olympians of Victorian society, and their view that children should only be lectured or else sentimentalized, was the great battle of his life. His fictional children indulge in gleeful fantasies in which Olympians are skinned alive, shot or made to walk the plank. The Olympians struck back; a reviewer called one Grahame short-story collection "a dishonour done to the sacred cause of childhood...
...said for or against Dublin-born Samuel (Waiting for Godot) Beckett, he deserves full marks for consistency. Having decided that life is a hapless, hopeless thing, he goes right on repeating his message. His latest novel to be published in the U.S. (it was written in 1953) does not back off an inch from the chasm. Watt is a worthy literary companion to such other Beckett anti-heroes as Murphy, Malone and Mahood. Like them, he does not have a chance, and does not really want...
...Nouveau simplification of natural forms. The handle of an American silver mirror, done under this style's influence, depicts the body of a young girl clad in what seems to and turning along the border. Though she may be swirling reeds; her glamorized face appears on the mirror's back, her luxuriant hair twisting sound sensuous, she merely looks affected, coy and thoroughly uninviting...
...years on end two pleas have characterized the plaints of Washington reporters and the criticisms of them: freedom from partisan editors and publishers and freedom of information. Drew Pearson, writing anonymously back in the Thirties, called for a purge of "business and money-drawer domination" of the American press. Harry Truman used to tell White House reporters that he realized they couldn't help the slant which their editors made them put into their copy. Adlai Stevenson favored the term, "one-party press." And, to meet the other complaint, the press now has a Congressional subcommittee to hear its demands...