Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incitement to Sin? The U.S. taxpayer is willing to swallow a camel-size defense tax, but a gnat-size affront will still make him gag. Such a gnat was the rule requiring husbands & wives to file joint returns, in the proposed 1941 tax bill. The House Ways and Means Committee hoped thereby to raise $323,000,000 in extra revenue. But a wave of public resentment against compulsory joint returns has swept down on the House. To many a defender of women's rights, the rule looks like a devilish device to sell married women down the river into...
...milestones were passed in Joe Louis' life last week. Not only did his wife file suit for divorce, but he admitted the truth of rumors that he is likely to retire at the end of this year. "I ain't near the fighter I use to be," he told a newshawk after a round of golf at Detroit's Rackham golf course. "I guess I'se slipped pretty far. Won't know how far until my next fight with Lou Nova in September. If I find then I'se slipped...
...Under "a mild form" of inventory control were 15 other metals: antimony, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, ferrous alloys, iridium, iron & steel products, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, nonferrous alloys, tin, vanadium. Users of these must file statements monthly that they are not increasing their inventories...
...licked, but we're the only ones who are happy," chortled anti-Communist leaders.- Reason: the Convention voted to elect officers henceforth by referendum instead of at conventions and they expect the rank & file to defeat the administration in a referendum...
...affiliate with and disrupt the Labor Party. He wrote: "I want to support [Arthur] Henderson with my vote in the same way that a rope supports a hanged man." But all efforts of the Communists were beaten off by Labor's leadership, with the support of the rank & file. Last Communist effort came in 1937 when Laborite Sir Stafford Cripps (whose long-standing friendliness to Moscow was last week honored by Hitler himself as a casus belli} and a handful of followers tried to force the Labor Party into a Popular Front. In 1939 Cripps & Co. were expelled...