Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victor Weybright wrote in the February Survey Graphic: "That 200,000 newcomers to the Federal service have been exempt from civil service in the past three years has alarmed critics of bureaucracy...
Congressman Fish, admitting the existence of faults in the capitalist system as it now stands, saw a remedy for the more flagrant abuses in the future in such measures as the Securities Act and the abolition of tax-exempt bonds with a view to putting capital into the hands of industry rather than into those of the government...
...first national potato production quota, similar to cotton production quotas under the Bankhead Act. U. S. commercial growers may not, he decreed, raise more than 226,600,000 bu. of potatoes in 1936. Counting raisers of less than five bushels and growers for home consumption only, who are exempt by law, he guessed the total crop under this quota would be about 350,000000 bu. compared to the 1928-32 average of 363,000,000 bu. Biggest quotas allotted...
...Conservative Bennett created his first campaign sensation by coming out in broadcasts in favor of "controlled inflation," proposing to cure Canadian unemployment and "give youth a chance" by retiring all workers on pensions at 60, and finally vexing his rich friends by promising to issue no more tax-exempt Canadian bonds...
...necessary to place at their disposal the largest athletic establishment in the world covering more than 60 acres and employing about 50 persons beside the coaching staffs. Although is is necessary for the rest of the student body to pay for the use of the equipment, the Freshmen are exempt from a fee because they are required to spend at least three one hour periods each week in some form of physical exercise. The whole system is under the administration of the Harvard Athletic Association headed by William J. Bingham...