Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indicted U.M.W. members have received no support from U.M.W. Local, district, and international treasuries are flush, but the miners have had to find their $1,000 bond money elsewhere (some from professional bondsmen, some from community storekeepers). John L. Lewis knows that aid for the indicted miners would infuriate a sizable percentage of U.M.W. members who resented the outlaw strikes and an even larger percentage of U.S. citizens who consider such strikes near treason. Local leaders believe that the sly Old Man of the Mines, considers these cases poor grounds for a Supreme Court fight. But with or without U.M.W...
Edgar Bergen bought himself a two-cell jail with running water and electric lights. For a $10,000 war bond bid at a Hollywood auction, he acquired the pint-size pokey from a young man who had got it by error for $1.50 at a tax sale (TIME, July 12). Bergen did not say what he was going to do with his plum, which lies in Harvard...
During the bitter-end battle over the withholding tax, many a financial observer nibbled his nails, brooding over the effect of the tax on war-bond sales, retail trade, family budgets. Last week, after three weeks of taxing, the first straws were fluttering in. Nail-nibblers could relax...
Workers told Lyons that 35% of their salaries are drained off by income taxes and almost-mandatory war bond purchases. "You don't have to be told how they draw off purchasing power after you have paid 33? for a package of cigarets that costs 15? in Boston...
Last fall Henry Morgenthau got enough whacks from the banking community to fracture a softer skull. Over the dead-body opposition of almost all U.S. bankers, the Treasury Secretary insisted on shoving through a $4 billion bond issue of 1½% notes of 1946 and 2% bonds of 1952. The issue barely squeaked through for a total of $4,100,000,000, whereas most issues theretofore had been oversubscribed 50% or more. Even to achieve this the Federal Reserve begged the banks to increase their subscriptions, offered to take over all the banks didn't want. (Subsequently they...