Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be passed on by manufacturers to the poor man. It would become a tax on destitution and poverty. It was a consumption tax and would thus stifle economic recovery. Once incorporated in the Federal tax system, it could never be got out. Precisely because it was easy to collect, it would stimulate governmental extravagance, thwart economy. To match the Hearst Press's whoops for the Sales Tax, the Scripps-Howard chainpapers whooped loud against it in "defense" of housewives and wage-earners. The manufacturers' lobby quietly rejoiced...
...office and runs away to Bordeaux. There she miscarries the child, takes to prostitution as a starving bird takes to a cage. The captain of a tramp steamer gets her drunk, whisks her off with him to Venezuela. There he drops her; there, bit by bit, she begins to collect money to get back to her adored France...
...close of the War the U. S. attempted to collect damages from Britain for the destruction of Union merchantmen by Confederate commerce raiders built in British yards. The C. S. S. Alabama was the most successful...
...Norsemen did not do it for love. By admiralty law salvagers are entitled to a sum fixed by an admiralty judge. Papers filed in a suit to collect such a sum are called by sea-lawyers a "libel" (Latin: libellus, a little book). To get their money the owners of the Norwold filed a libel attaching the Arminda and her cargo. Judge Cochran ruled last week that since the Arminda is officially a warship belonging to a nation friendly to the U. S., the Norsemen could not libel the ship herself. He suggested that they file separate papers against...
...library of the Vatican, Professor Levi Arnold Post, will collect material for a study of the text tradition of Plato's Laws. In 1912 Professor Post received his master's degree from Harvard, and is now associate professor of Greek at Haverford...