Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...competition from others of south ern California's indigenous religionists was tough and he got little recognition. Finally in an excess of zeal, he announced that U.S. planes with Japanese colors had bombed Pearl Harbor on orders from the "hidden rulers of the world." He was arrested, convicted of sedition, sentenced to five years in prison. "Mankind United" collapsed...
...House), of which Senator George is .vice-chairman, started the ball rolling. It handed Congress a carefully drafted plan to ease the backbreaking tax load on corporations. Main point: some corporations should be able to use immediately some of the postwar credits which they have piled up (under the excess profits tax, emergency war plant amortization plan, etc.). By speeding these rebates, the committee estimated that corporations would get a rousing $5.7 billion, principally in the next three years, to help pay for reconversion and postwar expansion...
...Business. Most of this cash will go to big corporations. Under present law, the Treasury need not start paying out the excess profits postwar credit until two years after war's end. Right now was the time for corporations to start getting the money, the postwar tax committee said...
...sake pointed out, was not a reformer, not a teacher, and certainly not a creature bound by ordinary laws. He was the last of the aristocrats in a world being turned over to mob rule. He followed his exquisite sensations wherever they might lead him; personal excess was his right. Poet Baudelaire managed to combine all the ideals: he smoked hashish, lived with Negresses, wrote brilliant, sensual, satanic poems. But, as an aristocrat, he dressed immaculately in the British manner and learned to drop phlegmatic monosyllables out of the corner of his mouth...
Then in an excess of zeal, the Army's Second Service Command ruled that enlisted men could not even eat in New York restaurant-bars after midnight. Hotelmen and bar and night club operators began shutting up at 12 again, shuddering at the idea of trying to separate service men from liquor or food an hour before civilians went home...