Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reported favorably by a 17-to-7 majority of the House Ways & Means Committee last week was the 1938 Tax Bill revising provisions for Federal revenue from capital gains and undistributed profits (TIME, Jan. 31). In his anniversary press conference, Franklin Roosevelt deplored the fact that the new bill makes no provisions for publishing salaries of corporation executives...
...azure-eyed young man and immediately captivated the smart set with his poetry, but it was not until he turned to novels and the drama that his influence was felt outside Italy. His Italian was written in a flamboyant, often baroque, style, lush with passionate simile. He was in fact a Casanova, yearned to be a Napoleon. He carried on world famed affairs with Actresses Eleonora Duse and Sarah Bernhardt, Dancers Ida Rubinstein and Isadora Duncan, other Edwardian beauties. In 1909 his brutally frank description of his intimacies with Duse sent her into a twelve-year retirement. During this period...
...machine-gunning troops from his plane in daring swoops and dives directly over the trenches. Romantic Venice was only a few minutes flight from the front, and Italian beauties got the greatest thrills of their lives, bedding in palaces beside the Grand Canal with a national hero who in fact flew off at dawn to fight the Austrians, returned for lunch or dinner at the latest...
Patrickmen. Striking fact about this year's Rangers is that they have Dillon and Kerr, top team rating in goals scored, a standing of 55 points* last week and as a team are only two years old. Only team with a higher standing (59 last week) was the seasoned Boston Bruins, managed by Art Ross, who in his playing days once got $10 a minute for six exhibition games...
...suffered a throat hemorrhage shortly after he arrived in Honolulu aboard his trim ketch Novia Del Mar. Mr. Scripps, frail in his youth but strong in later years, confided to friends that he feared he would some day bleed to death. Last week that grave fear became a fearful fact. Stricken with another hemorrhage while his yacht rolled in Magdalena Bay, Lower California, Robert Scripps died...