Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that question the opposition had no good answer. One group proposed a beer tax. Another favored a system of taxes on checks, legal documents, radios, luxuries, motor vehicles et al. Sales tax objectors, however, were so vociferous that Mr. Crisp decided to prepare some "perfecting amendments" which make exemptions here & there. Secretary of the Treasury Mills hurried to the Capitol, threw the solid support of the Administration behind the tax bill...
...Geneva businessmen Peace is a business. As a business proposition, the City recently built a hall with stone facing on which is displayed a wooden sign: CONFERENCE pour la REDUCTION et pour la LIMITATION des ARMAMENTS. This conference has been in session more than a month (TIME, Feb. 8 et seq.) and from the 5,000 Delegates and hangers-on Geneva businessmen have already got back their money and made a profit...
...painfully embarrassed. All Memphis was privy to the domestic secrets of the deanery in the Cathedral's shadow. Mrs. Ellen Morris Camblox Noe began a divorce suit against her husband last year, charging that for three years he had lived a separate life in their house (TIME, May 11 et...
...Parents' Magazine, the new sheet is pocket-size, concisely written. Unlike other educational magazines it deals not with the theories of pedagogy but with the practical mechanics of school life-the choice of teachers, health room designs, classroom cinemas, luncheon menus, budgets, proper desks, textbook purchases et al. Like some 225 other U. S. publications, it has a "controlled circulation," will be sent gratis, every month except July and August, to 50,000 school superintendents, principals, architects. All others must subscribe at $2 per year. School Management, unlike most educational magazines, pays for articles. Advertising is expected to meet...
...been charged with incompetence, permitting gambling in his political club and retaining interest on litigants' money, but because he was unable credibly to explain a personal fortune of $357,000 which, taken from a mysterious tin box, far exceeded his gross public salary (TIME, Feb. 29 et ante...