Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mothers are often the worst people to give presents to. A few possible ideas are records, quilted lingerie cases, Chinese tea cups, and jasmin tea. They might even like a picture of you or a subscription to the CRIMSON...
...citizen to spend as he pleases. Instead they channel a considerable part of his earnings into general welfare which he may or may not desire. Worse than this in the long run is the deadening hand of taxes on new enterprises and undertakings and the comparative strength they also give to old established businesses. Freedom to start something now with some chance of success is diminishing year by year. Year by year the big companies are consolidated in their competitive positions. No laws can change this situation so long as the amount and kind of our taxation makes it inevitable...
...organizations, or business groups--that they should look at the long-range interests of all the people rather than to the short-range interests of their own group. We have to do this in spite of the fact that those who undertake it may thereby lose the positions which give strength and carrying power to their words...
...will give the second of the annual series at 8 p.m. tonight in Littauer auditorium, not, as previously announced, is New Lecture Hall. His subject will be America's "responsibilities and opportunities in its dealings with the rest of the world...
...question of discrimination in membership, Watson said that "it is very hard to do anything about that; I should like to give the problem more thought...