Word: bugaboos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Premier Duplessis' mandate ran for five years from 1936, but so lame was his position by this autumn, that he eagerly seized on the war as an issue whereby he might recoup lost prestige. He raised the eternal French-Canadian bugaboo of conscription for a British-Canadian war, and decreed an election. It was an important contest, for if Maurice Duplessis won, it would mean that a huge French island in Canada was in open opposition to the Federal policy, and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Government might fall. But things went badly for pink-cheeked...
Bombs laden with disease germs, another persistent bugaboo of modern warfare, are shrugged off by bacteriologists. Man, they say, can culture and concentrate disease organisms, but it is hardly likely that he can start epidemics in civil populations unless he reproduces the conditions, many of which are still unknown, which make natural epidemics possible...
Question: "How is President Roosevelt going to get around the third-term bugaboo...
...could take the risk of issuing securities because Section 11 of the Act provides that any purchaser of securities can recover damages from the issuers for subsequent losses if misrepresentations or omissions were made in the official registration statement. In six years of the Act's operations this bugaboo failed to materialize. Last week the dreaded event took place for the first time...
Written in simple you-style by a certified public accountant, Your Income Tax treats the befuddled lower-bracket taxee very much as a psychiatrist would handle an alarmed patient. The 120 pages of text lay every bugaboo from Who-Must-File-a-Return to What-to-do-if-They-Get-After-You. You can hardly go wrong unintentionally. Author Lasser warns you sternly not to try it intentionally, then proceeds to list hundreds of legal exemptions and deductions that you may not have thought of before. Samples...