Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...satellites. Among these expatriate Americans "promenading insouciantly upon the national prosperity" are Tommy Barban, an adventurer who has worn the uniform of many nations and is obviously in love with Nicole; Abe Martin, once a musician; the Mckisces who are writing a novel. These swarm about the Divers and gain what stability they have from them, for Nicole is not only beautiful and charming but a successful hostess of her hilltop villa and Dick Diver is handsome and gay, and claims to be the only American man with repose...
...class in Music 4 he simplifies and explains the technicalities of the great composers from Bach to Stravinsky. To accomplish this, he uses both his skill as a pianist and his serious, but rather whimsical, method of lecturing. The result is a satisfactory course for men who want to gain an appreciation of music. He may be criticized for his lack of poise on the lecture platform, which characterizes a Merriman' or an Kittredge, but his fortunately is subsidiary part of his teaching...
...Capital Gains & Losses are taxed as part of income, with 100% of the gain or loss counting if the asset is held less than one year, 80% if held one to two years, 60% if held two to five years, 40% if held five to ten years, 30% if held over ten years. (Old law: a flat 12% tax on gains.) Capital losses are deductible from capital gains and not more than $2,000 additional from ordinary income. (Old law: no deductions except from capital gains.) Increased revenue...
...Negro has never been a member of either house of Britain's Parliament. Last week the world's most flamboyant black man, famed Marcus Garvey, set out to be the first of his race to gain that distinction. An M. P. seemed a small prize to the fat little Jamaican who swept into Manhattan's Harlem during the War, proposed to ferry the whole Negro population of the U. S. back to Africa, plumped for a Black Christ, made himself Provisional President of the African Republic, Imperial Potentate of the Valley of the Nile, Emperor Marcus...
...been made in the last two years of the Bull Market when stock trading was a major U. S. industry. In 1930 total profits dropped to $71,000,000. Deficits of $2,109,000 in 1931 and $5,519,000 in 1932 were followed by a $109,000,000 gain in the first two-thirds of last year. Mr. Pecora's figures were out of focus because not all brokers answered his questionnaire in the same way. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the House of Morgan reported only their modest income from commissions, not their underwriting and banking income. Lehman...