Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sell at big profit, took out Canadian citizenship papers and transferred his securities to four corporations in the Bahamas in order to escape the income and capital gains tax. Some of such schemes were illegal, some might be technically legal. All were immoral. Franklin Roosevelt was going to bring them to the attention of Congress...
...desperation and announced that "within the hour" he had been in conversation with the President. He urged Democrats not to play into the hands of the Republican minority, got them to put off final action on the bill until this week, promised "everything humanly possible will be done to bring about an adjustment fair to every man, to every section, to every project...
...reported that Adolf Hitler had lost all stomach for the Spanish adventure (always unpopular with the German General Staff) and would be glad to pull out of it completely. The strategy of Britain (and France) last week, therefore, was to ignore German participation in the Spanish Civil War and bring, within and without the League, all possible pressure on Italy...
...conditioned. Few managers are farsighted enough to try to build audience good will which would ultimately benefit everyone in the business. An exception is Lawrence Langner, one of the directors of the Theatre Guild. At the Astor he proposed that money be raised to start a promotion bureau to bring the Theatre and its customers closer together and, incidentally, to fight legislation unfriendly to the stage...
...place has usually been taken by Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri, whose practice has been to sit ruminating while the committee's lawyers ran the Van Sweringen show. But a time has come in almost each day's testimony when Senator Truman has felt impelled to bring his palms down whack on the green covered committee table and speak his mind-in virtually identical terms: "These hearings have very plainly brought out that holding companies and New York bankers are not the proper people to run the railroads. ..." Last week he added: "Holding companies are as great...