Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little side investigation conducted by the Senate has been looking into the Bureau of Internal Revenue. One of the matters gone into was the refund of taxes to the Gulf Oil Corporation in which Mr. Mellon is interested. It developed that a settlement had been made in regard to tax refunds on Feb. 28, 1921, a few days before Mr. Mellon took office. An agreement for a final settlement was made in August of last year under Section 1312 of the Revenue Act, by which the case cannot be reopened. The propriety of this is at present under inspection...
...Award of the Benjamin Franklin Fund for a book on Mental and Spiritual Healing. The announcement also said that Charles P. Steinmetz got the second award of ?1,000 for a privately published treatise The Nervous System as a Conductor of Electrical Energy and that a minor award had gone to a Japanese living in Tokyo. It was said that Banning's book had been submitted for the award by "Dr. Franklin C. Wells, Medical Director of the Equitable Life Insurance...
...purpose. Or else it has come as the result of canvassing by some department or member of the University and has been used for the purposes recommended. Gifts have come mainly from interested individuals, or as the result of requests by interested individuals. And the money has gone into the stipulated channels, whether those channels were dry or not. Notable exceptions have been the sums annually donated by disinterested generosity for the University to use as it sees fit, and the recent endowment raised among the alumni. In each of these cases the moving force has been generous and often...
...special import and then fled craftily into the night." And it dragged on through all the other twelve, with various victims rising and stealing toward the door, till at length "the gaps in the audience made the room look like an old comb with half its teeth gone. The faithful remainder sat weary, wilted, their yawns breaking from control, their eyes turning glassy in their grim determination not to let them close in slumber?so stunned that when it was all over they didn't believe it. Friends had to prod them into rising and going home...
...these were the purposes with which the late Frederick Dixon, formerly of The Christian Science Monitor, founded The International Interpreter, a "Worldwide News Weekly," two years ago. Now the Interpreter asks its readers to decide whether it shall continue to publish or not. Within a month The Freeman has gone on the rocks and ceased publication (TiME, Feb. 4), The Independent went into bankruptcy (TiME, Feb. 11) and was sold. Now the Interpreter which, according to its profession, "only reaches a thin red line of thinkers scattered throughout the world" appeals for funds to carry on its work. Its editors...