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Word: indirection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Featuring arrangements by other famous orchestras, Don Gahan will have his band present to swing out the music while Eliot's beautiful dining hall will be artistically decorated and illuminated by indirect lighting and colored spotlights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 3/6/1937 | See Source »

...under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the Judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution. I do not want to see any direct assault upon the courts, nor do I want to see any indirect assaults upon the courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: The Big Debate | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...limping from a hip broken while skiing ten years ago, had to do no more than stand still while his skis carried him down the slide once or twice to fulfill his function as main attraction of the show whose clientele was made up mostly of skiing sophisticates. Indirect effect of Herr Schneider's three-week stay in the U. S., before going back to St. Anton for the start of the semester, was to aggravate New York's skiing neurosis to the point of mania. Owner Horace Stoneham of the New York Giants planned to turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indoor Winter | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...being buttressed by the arguments of many Republican employers who before election stirred up resentment against the tax "pay deduction." Since the great majority of employers will shift the tax to their customers, Labor as the largest consumer will pay most of it anyhow. But it would be an indirect tax; the ordinary employe would not be aware of his "pay cut," and at least part of the burden would be shifted to farmers and other unbenefited consumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Social Security | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...received but a tiny share of Federal bounty. At his chief speech, in Worcester, he tackled taxes themselves, declared that income and estate taxes had been increased only for the rich-"less than 1% of the heads of American families"gave the impression that poor are paying less in indirect taxes than they did in 1932. The undistributed profits tax on corporations he described as an advantage to stockholders but promised that if "imperfections" were discovered in its application, they would be remedied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Frenzy in New England | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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