Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court, be subject to Federal income tax retroactively for three years. He urged a simple act (instead of a Constitutional Amendment) to end all exemptions, but not retroactively, and sent Under-Secretary of the Treasury John Hanes up Capitol Hill to argue for the change, which might bring the U. S. over $300,000,000 a year in new tax revenue...
...been taking a lot of joshing-people used to say that when the circus came to town they couldn't see a thing if he got there first. If Mr. Lord liked her letter, could she come in a "bedded car," and should she bring her own vittles...
...occupation of scholars. The King James Version, most familiar to the English-speaking world (ordered by the late Queen Elizabeth's pious, witch-hunting successor), is a 17th-Century revision in the light of then available Greek and Hebrew texts. The Revised Version (1881, 1885) was meant to bring the Bible up to date; the Goodspeed-Smith "American" Bible of a few years ago did so even more thoroughly. Last week, in Chicago, Professor William Louis Bailey of Northwestern University revealed that he had a New Testament ready for publication, declared that he was the first sociologist to tackle...
...helped build it into one of the largest of its kind in the U. S. But Ives never let his business interfere with his composing. His evenings and holidays were spent, pen-in-hand, over an old desk, piling up a huge heap of manuscripts that were later to bring him fame...
...threatened to summon Louise Hovick (strip-name: Gypsy Rose Lee) to testify about a Hollywood party to raise money for Spanish Loyalists. Interviewed in Manhattan last week, Miss Hovick suggested that she and Representative Dies form a vaudeville team. Said she: "With my act and his publicity we could bring back vaudeville...