Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notation found on an income-tax return, made by an Internal Revenue agent, which read: "Returned without examination for the reason that the return was prepared in the office of J. P. Morgan & Co., and it has been our experience that any schedule made by that office is correct...
...most they were called off by their union officials. Twenty thousand, 50,000, 75,000, daily the number of strikers rose throughout the nation. In their own minds, the men were protesting against their longer working hours. Actually, their leaders were trying to coerce Congress by direct action to correct a situation which they thought would provide an argument for employers in private industry (especially building contractors) to depress wages. They regarded their strike as a belated lobby to alter a bill which went through too fast for them to mass forces against...
...Moscow but in Berlin. He long plugged for a British-French combination to stop the Nazis and last year urged that Britain seek an alliance with Soviet Russia. Most of the dangers he has warned against have come to pass, and he has thus gained the reputation of a correct Cassandra...
...gesture of contempt for the schools of art represented. It was one more of Germany's ingenious efforts to get foreign exchange. Total value placed on the collection was about a quarter-million dollars. But after the hammer had fallen all one stifling hot day amid a quiet, correct and much photographed international crowd, Nazi sellers were greatly disappointed. Six pictures remained unsold and returns on the others totaled about...
...American Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting in Milwaukee last week, Dr. Victor George Heiser (An American Doctor's Odyssey) made a powerful plea for proper stoking of the human machine. Science has proved, said he, that the greatest factor in longevity is correct eating...