Word: freed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wear the Fascist emblem. His anti-Fascist activities almost cost Zoli his life -after his 1943 arrest he was condemned to death by a Fascist court and was held in a fortress to be shot as a hostage, but to the disgust of the Fascists, the Germans inexplicably freed...
...young people must uphold the principles of Communist morality." But it was not morality that was worrying the minds of the practical men-and women-at the head of Peking's government as they watched the effect of their new marriage law on millions of young people suddenly freed from the taboos of their ancestors. It was the simple fact that the situation was resulting in too many babies...
...operating surplus from buoyant tax returns and the big savings in defense. He intended to pass out $275 million at once in tax relief. Brushing aside fearful warnings of inflation, he said: "The answer to an over stretched economy is not to tax it but to relax it." He freed firms doing business abroad from all taxes on their overseas trading operations, removed some unpopular domestic levies, e.g., the 1955 "pots and pans" tax and the "Suez shilling" on gasoline, lowered others and granted graduated income-tax exemptions for children to help their parents pay higher school bills. But Thorneycroft...
...young man named Arthur Flegenheimer, better known to his fellow racketeers and murderers as Dutch Schultz. While Schultz and his mob prospered in bootleg whisky and the numbers racket, Hines provided the necessary protection. Uncooperative policemen were shifted to faraway beats, district attorneys obligingly quashed indictments, amiable Hines magistrates freed the small fry. Into Hines's personal treasury came -in addition to the customary kickbacks from city employees and officials-vast wads of money from Schultz. How Hines profited from his warm association with other leading hoods, e.g., Lucky Luciano, young Frank Costello, Rackets Banker Arnold Rothstein, only...
Three professors of Social Relations were also appointed, Alex Inkeles, R. Freed Bales, and Richard L. Solomon. Inkeles is a student of the Soviet social system and its communications network...