Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus the amendment seems likely to doom some of the hoariest of all political fund-raising gimmicks. No deductions would be permitted for ads in "a convention program of a political party, or in any other publication" or for "admission to any dinner or program" if any part of the net proceeds "inures to a political party or to a political candidate." Nor would write-offs be allowed for "admission to an inaugural ball, inaugural gala, or similar event identified with a political party or a political candidate...
Squared Meal? In any case, Williams has pointed out, there are no clear guidelines as to the proportion of such expenses that can legitimately be deducted. How much of a $1,000-a-plate dinner can a company discount as a business expense? According to Internal Revenue Commissioner Sheldon Cohen, said the Senator, "deductions are allowable to the extent of the value of the meal." Demanded Williams: "Does it go up for a Democratic meal and down for a Republican meal...
...Dean. For one thing, Dean didn't bother to take part; for another, he was breaking out the dressing-room bottle and splashing himself a tall Scotch and water. Then came dress rehearsals, the cue for Martin's second Scotch and a gagging, ragging appearance onstage. Then dinner break and another Scotch. "We'd rather have him do it only once and have it fresh," says Director Greg Garrison. And after dinner, he did it-once and fresh...
...jailers in the big prison at Vincennes called him Monsieur le 6. The name of the arrogant prisoner in the tower had not yet become an eponym for conscienceless cruelty, but there was something about him that the warders did not like, and they preferred to poke his dinner to him through a trapdoor in the floor...
...campus living for a number of reasons. Primarily it argues that Harvard must remain a residential college, a melting pot in which all types of students learn through interaction in the Houses. The House, it contends, is the place where a student can talk to his professor over dinner, out of the academic setting, and a place where the student will be exposed to many different opinions during the evening "bull sessions...