Word: deed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word and deed we follow the lead...
...avoid the Federal inheritance tax many a wealthy man used to deed over most of his property to his intended heirs when he felt death overtaking him. So widespread became this type of tax evasion that Congress in 1926 amended the Internal Revenue Laws by inserting a provision (Section 302C) that all such gifts within two years of death were presumably made to cheat the U. S. Treasury and must be taxed as part of the final estate. Last week in Manhattan U. S. District Judge Alfred Conkling Coxe declared Section 302C unconstitutional as it deprived heirs of their property...
...Donovan used to bolster his slender income by playing dummy in big real estate deals. For a modest fee, he would sign the mortgage bonds on a property and then deed the property to the real buyer. Thus, if the mortgage were foreclosed and if the amount realized by the foreclosure sale were not enough to cover the mortgage, Mr. Donovan alone would be liable for the difference. It is a shrewd method which big real estate operators can only use to limit their legal liability on obligations they assume. So long as Mr. Donovan signed only first mortgage bonds...
...that he promised to perform a miracle: he would cause the Garden of Eden to be transported wherever the Anglican parson wished, at precisely 11:30 the following night. Next evening they met; the parson chose Bass Rock, a little island some 20 miles away; Father Malachy prayed; the deed was done...
...Fascism says it is Catholic and wishes to be Catholic. Now in order to be Catholics not in name only but in deed also; in order to be true, good Catholics, not Catholics of false name and Catholics who in the great family of the church wound the heart of Mother Church by their manner of speaking and acting and give such a bad example as to drive others away, there is only one indispensable means?to obey the Church and its head and to think with the Church and its head...