Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest hump ahead was the personal income-tax rate. Still under consideration was Secretary Morgenthau's newest proposal: to have all who file a return pay a $5 head tax. The sales tax was asleep under an anesthetic that might wear off at any moment. Latest anesthetist was Price Boss Leon Henderson, who argued that the heaviest burden of a sales tax would fall on "persons whose standard of living is already below safe levels." But, while no one wanted to wreak injury on the very lowest income group, most New Dealers now argued that a sales...
...prepared to go on trial and was about to file a demurrer to the indictments based on what I believe to be the good legal contention that Franklin D. Roosevelt was not and is not within the jurisdiction of the Middlesex Court, and that no crime has been committed within the jurisdiction of this court...
...newsreel cameramen rushed across the field, the official reviewing party, headed by Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, and including President Conant, Admiral Tarrant, General Erickson, Chairman Robert H. Hollowell of the Overseers Visiting Committee, and other military and civilian dignitaries left its stand near the baseball grandstand and marched double file to the left of the units which were drawn up at attention. As the cadet officers, with sabres drawn, gave the order "Eyes right," the reviewing party walked the entire length of the ranks for the inspection, and then diagonally back across the field to their seats...
Military Secrecy. Negro soldiers stand guard over the laboratories at M.I.T., outstanding center of war research. FBI agents loiter inconspicuously about the University of Chicago campus, where scientists have shelved 90% of their peace time projects and now file their current research in code. Armed police bar visitors from General Electric's laboratories, 100% converted to direct war work. The entire University of Washington campus (with its great wind tunnel) is closed off and guarded at night...
...wave." He will discover, if he did not know it, that "Spare the rod and spoil the child" is not from the Bible but is a folk improvement on it dating from about A.D. 1,000. He will be glad to see that Editor Mencken enshrines his file-tongued old friend James Huneker ("He died without owing me a cent"); that he respects the gentle excellence of the late Justice Brandeis' dissenting opinions; that he is not afraid to rescue Elbert Hubbard from the Roycrofters (with, for instance, his definition of God as "The John Doe of philosophy...