Word: hocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drop his proposed taxes on savings banks and insurance companies if they would buy $70,000,000 of relief bonds. For the time being at least the first city of the land was saved from the stigma of default but John Patrick O'Brien had had to hock its income...
...defense that must prove no intent to defraud. It was not so much the sale as the repurchase at the same price that aroused the U. S. Government's suspicions. By repurchasing the stock he sold her, Mr. Mitchell got his wife's small fortune "out of hock," whereas he became merely a little more in debt to the House of Morgan than he was before. Was his motive, then, prudence rather than tax-evasion? Elizabeth Rend Mitchell is not in the courtroom. A large matronly woman with two grown children, she cannot be made to testify against...
...than Man o' War. His girth behind the shoulders was 81 in. against Man o' War's 71¾ in. Alive, Phar Lap weighed approximately 1,200 lb.; Man o' War, 1,160 Ib. Other measurements: front leg from knee, 20 in.; hind leg from hock, 25 in.; length of neck, 36 in.; length of body...