Word: brought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have had a one-year property assessment of $20,000 in the same period. Evidence of the thoroughness with which the Nazi regime has applied this tax was given last week in Berlin when revenue reports revealed that since the advent of Chancellor Hitler in 1933 the tax has brought in a total of 313,000,000marks ($125,200,000). Swelled by payments from Jews who fled from Austria after the Anschluss, the flight levy for the months of April through July reached a record high of 61,000,000 marks...
...Harvard, steers clear of Germany today and recently was reported visiting in London with his old friend, Winston Churchill, but his flight tax was taken over by Adolf Hitler in 1933 and made a good thing when Jews had to flee. In the two years before Hitler the tax brought in but 2,876,000 marks. With the start of the Nazi anti-Jewish drive and the application of the Nürnberg laws, however, receipts multiplied until in fiscal 1937-38 they reached a total of 81,000,000 marks. Two years ago the yield was not large enough...
Speaker Shoulders read the recommendations of the National Health Conference, assigned a committee of the House to consider each proposal separately. 'The committee adjourned for two days. When they reappeared they brought, contrary to expectations, no plan for war with the Administration, but a conciliatory program, in substantial agreement with that of the National Health Conference. Proposals: 1) The health of impoverished persons should be protected by use of Federal and State funds when necessary; 2) A Department of Health should be established with 'a physician as Cabinet member; 3) Public health, maternal and child welfare service should...
...fondled Wunderkind, he sat in the Empress Maria Theresa's lap, was petted by Madame de Pompadour, spent hours playing private concerts for England's demented music-loving George III. But chronic improvidence and a generous nature gradually brought him into a tangle of debts and grinding responsibilities...
...first week of college packed with inspiring speeches that always began with the word "Men!" He remembered the buffet supper in the Union; the laughter at the Tally-ho joke; the speeches in P. B. H., and the ice cream he didn't get. Hazy memories, but brought back in sharp relief by the sight of these young, eager faces...