Word: deduction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department of Justice's able John F. Sonnett tried hard to get the genie back into the bottle. In support of the Department's plea that all makeready time should be ruled trifles, he said: ". . . An employer is not entitled to deduct trifling personal-pursuit periods. . . . And an employe should not be entitled to . . . trifling periods of preliminary activity. . . . If portal-to-portal compensation is granted, then the employer will be entitled to keep track of and deduct short periods spent in personal pursuits." Asked Judge Picard: "You think we might do an ultimate injustice to the worker...
...Company Lawyer Frank E. Cooper did agree. Said he: any reasonable walking time should be called a "trifle." The management did not bother to deduct for time the men wasted on the job, even though the time amounted to half an hour a day. Asked the Judge : "Were these facts drawn to the attention of the Supreme Court?" Answered Cooper: "They were in our brief but they weren't mentioned in the opinion...
...suggest that students who want to sell books ask about 60 percent of the price they paid for them," Lofchie stated, "and, since there is no profit for us to deduct, we sell them for that price, which often turns out to be almost a third loss than the same book would cost at one of the local stores. In that way, both buyer and seller get an unusually good deal...
...Michigan, the Supreme Court decreed that women may not be employed as bartenders. In Cincinnati, the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that husbands cannot deduct from their income tax any sums paid to their wives for housework...
...investment. After T. 0. Pride had first been named junior champion and then grand champion steer at Kansas City's rich, famed American Royal livestock show, Jack Hoffman sold him. The auction price: $42,600 (the Government will get $19,801.80 of this unless Jack is able to deduct a sizeable amount as "operating expenses" and needed improvements on his 80-acre farm...