Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loopholes. That Senator Schwellenbach felt he needed time to study the Tax Loophole Bill last week was by no means unnatural. It is designed to keep the shrewdest tax lawyers in the U. ,S. up long after bedtime, and to make paying taxes, if only on the ground of the effort involved in dodging them, an economical procedure. Major provisions of the bill...
...difference between meeting Britain and clashing with Britain. . . . Britain is really living in the past in her judgment of Italy. She has a picturesque conception of Italy-a picturesqueness I detest. . . . In view of our common interests in the Mediterranean I believe it is possible to find a middle ground...
...many a sporting Briton, a sufficient reason for keeping dank Scotland in the Empire is its excellence as a breeding ground for grouse. This year there were the usual troubling reports that heavy February and March snows had scattered the grouse far afield, that coveys had been thinned by starvation and disease. But with the approach of the "Glorious Twelfth," traditional August opening of the shooting season, grouse were reported rising as thickly as ever. Last week on the moors thousands of beaters got into action with white flags, forming semicircles to drive the grouse over the concealed "butts" where...
...considering an-other role, that of Haym Salomon, a Jewish banker and friend of George Washington who helped finance the Continental Army. Last week Warner Brothers announced that Salomon would be impersonated by Muni next, but it was shortly revealed that Muni had turned down the role on the ground that U. S. citizens might object to the implication that a Jew was the master mind behind the Father of His Country. Nevertheless, Hollywood could not believe he would be reading parts if he seriously meant to retire...
...find a new cathedral site. Presumably planning expansion, Eastman Kodak Co. announced last week it was negotiating to purchase St. Patrick's Cathedral and nearby Catholic property. Before the sale can be closed, Pope Pius XI must give permission, arrange to have the Cathedral's holy ground deconsecrated...