Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With respect to dictatory autocracy and New Deal democracy, it is not always clear where "the parson leaves off and the pew-rent begins" ; I beg to contribute for current circulation: "ipsedictatorial" (or-"dictatory") and "demautocratic" (or -"cracy...
...flight tax was originally imposed during the economic crisis in 1931 by former Chancellor Dr. Heinrich Brüning to shut off the flow of German capital abroad. Dr. Brüning, lecturer in government at 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...
...prospectuses or with misleading information. Last week the sixth thrift plan enjoined by SEC, Lexington Foundation Inc., consented to a permanent injunction without admitting guilt.* Lexington, whose contracts total about $16,000,000, may continue in busi ness so long as it is careful to issue prospectuses which make clear such facts as that from the first $100 which an investor pays, some $70 is deducted for a service charge...
...regard willingness to join as a recommendation for membership; repentance before baptism was its motto. It planned to make carnivals respectable or break them. This was clever salesmanship on the part of A.F.A. Bulletins sent to State and county fair officials, mayors, sheriffs, Rotary, Kiwanis, etc., made it quite clear that if a carnival could not display A.F.A. and A.F. of L. insignia it was because "it permits gambling, indecency, immorality . . . or is unfair to organized labor." Consequently, instead of resisting unionization, carnivaleers were anxious to get the good-conduct badge that A.F.A. membership carried, and the union found itself...
...city planning, and Walter Peterhans, technician in photography. Under this triumvirate Armour students will tackle a trivium: materials, functions, design. As to what is expected of them: "[This educational method] would serve no purpose," says Mies van der Rohe, "unless ... it were to lead without fail to a clear and un equivocal spiritual orientation...