Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agencies to submit plans for an advertising campaign. Last week it announced the winner: Philadelphia's 71-year-old, high-minded N. W. Ayer & Son, which contributed (for $1) the celebrated Blue Eagle to the New Deal's NRA. On the Army's $250.000, Ayer will collect a commission...
...attended an international conference before. Son of an Ambassador who died at his Washington post in 1917, Mauricio de Nabuco believes that Brazil should follow U. S. policy. This does not keep him from being a shrewd trader. Last week he, too, was on his way to Washington, to collect a few favors for Brazil in return for his pro-U. S. stand at Havana, before going home to Rio de Janeiro to report to his chief, Getulio Vargas. If Senhores Vargas and Nabuco have their way, the best U. S. South American neighbor will be Brazil...
...nominated, I want no one to notify me." He asked for a baby to kiss. Said he: "I will accept no modest sums as campaign contributions-the smallest will be $5,000,000." His colleagues hailed him as another Lincoln, pled with onlookers to wire their delegates collect, draft Timmons for Vice President...
...raised $2,505,566,000 in its first year, was the Treasury's all-time-record money raiser. But it was one of the most unpopular taxes levied in the U. S. since the Boston Tea Party. Years later William Gibbs McAdoo, whose job was to collect it, wrote: "The unpopularity of the bill . . . was undoubtedly the most potent factor in the defeat of the Democrats [in 1918]. We lost enough seats in Congress to give the Republicans a working majority." For a decade the Bureau of Internal Revenue and Board of Tax Appeals were swamped with cases arising...
...miles. The Lomen brothers, who had found the reindeer industry no gold mine, were glad to sell out. On the few others who refused, Burdick slapped condemnation proceedings. He ingratiated himself with the Eskimos by dealing out not only reindeer but great quantities of bubble gum. The Government will collect the herds he purchased in reindeer corrals built by the Eskimo CCC, will lend reindeer to Eskimos for breeding, or in cases of destitution, for meat and clothing...