Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Actually, any one who gives the matter unbiased consideration will realize that it is for the benefit of the rich to plug loopholes in tax laws, since this raises more revenues without raising rates...
...front teeth. Nowhere have secret societies flourished more luxuriantly than in the U. S. During the Revolution everyone of importance from George Washington to Lafayette belonged to them. Some subsequent samples: Daughters of the Prairie of the Benevolent Protective Herd of Buffaloes of the World, Get There America Benefit Association, Prudent Patricians of Pompeii of the U. S. of America, Grand United Order of Galilean Fishermen, Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers...
Insurance societies at that time generally worked on the assessment basis: when a member died, every fellow member of the local lodge contributed a dollar. Under such a system the Modern Woodmen's first benefit was paid in 1884 upon the death of Neighbor Abraham Mayer of Davenport, Iowa, from "indiscretion in eating confectionary, ice cream, etc. . . ." To his wife went...
...interest as an income deduction; 6) creating trusts for wife, children and relatives so as to divide family income and keep it out of the highest surtax brackets; 7) taking wives and children into partnership for the same purpose; 8) creating pension trusts, which pay reduced taxes, for the benefit not of ordinary employes but of a few high officers of a company. To these dodges Mr. Morgenthau added three others "which the law itself permits": 1) claims for depletion by oil and mining companies, which are allowed as a deduction from income and prevent the Treasury from collecting...
This situation has resulted in freezing the lines in practically the same status they found themselves in when the Air Mail Act of 1934 was passed. Though there are many places in the U. S. where extension of routes would benefit both nation and airlines, such expansions have almost always been forbidden. Sample case was the rejection two months ago of Transcontinental & Western Air's application to inaugurate useful service between Albuquerque and San Francisco (TIME, March 22). Last week American Airlines was similarly forbidden to inaugurate service between Detroit and Cincinnati and between Detroit and Indianapolis via Fort...