Word: huntting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significant thing is that the Kremlin's apparently frenzied efforts to arrest the decline by wholesale dismissals of executives and engineers, setting the whole population on a hunt for 'Trotskyists,' is making matters worse instead of better. . . . Now it becomes evident that many past figures of industrial output were false because executives, under pressure from the Kremlin to fulfill their plans, simply faked them...
With this neat bit of logic, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. last week opened the great 1937 hunt for rich tax dodgers launched so suddenly by him and Franklin Roosevelt early this month (TIME, June 14). The hunt meet was not in the customary inquisition chamber, the Senate's barnlike caucus room, but in the House Ways & Means Committeeroom, which has much better acoustics, handsome indirect lighting, and comfortable chairs of green-blue leather. On the long bench were little placards identifying the committeemen for the audience. In the centre sat old Representative Bob Doughton of Laurel...
...Magill explained that the Treasury was not yet sure of its facts in other cases. So unprepared was it for a real red-hot millionaire hunt that foes of the Administration caught the ear of the press with some tax questions of their own. Republican Representative Hamilton Fish went so far as to ask questions about two of his constituents. Did Squire Franklin Delano Roosevelt of Hyde Park,* did Squire Henry Morgenthau of Fishkill, report their gentlemen-farming costs as business expenses in the "unethical" fashion in which other rich men treated racing stables, chicken farms, and yachts? Mrs. Roosevelt...
...that were illegal evasions. One speech of his was regarded as such valuable advice on how to save on taxes that Manhattan's Chemical Bank published and circulated it. Washington watched alertly to see if some of the mud kicked up by the President's tax-dodger hunt might not land in New Dealer eyes...
...heroine of the Kurd hunt was 22-year-old Sabiha Gogçen Hanoum, Dictator Kamâl Atatürk's adopted daughter who last year became the first woman officer of the Turkish Flying Corps, and a pioneer in Kamâl Atatürk's movement to open all professions, even the army, to the tough, modern Turkish woman. She volunteered for service during the uprising, plunked a bomb on the house of Seyyid Riza, a rebel leader, killed him and so helped mightily to crush the rebellion. For her trouble the Turkish Government awarded...