Word: indirection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negotiations for a Gramophone-Graphophone merger were begun in 1929, reputedly under the direction of Morgan Partner Thomas Cochran, but Radio Corp.'s ownership of Victor Talking Ma-chine make it desirable for the English Columbia Graphophone to get rid of its U. S. Columbia Phonograph lest the indirect consolidation of Columbia Phonograph with Victor Talking Machine arouse U. S. anti-trust action...
...violent partisanship. But a speech such as that made by George W. Wickersham, chairman of the Law Enforcement Commission, at the Boston Garden Monday night cannot be passed over so lightly. His conclusion that America's policy of legal prohibition has been less successful in reducing alcoholism than the indirect methods employed by England cannot but make the most sincere dry wonder whether his ends might not be better accomplished in some other...
Factors such as these exert a constant influence whether assisted by conscious governmental action or not. If prohibition has made any permanent contribution to the cause of temperance it has been in the indirect encouragement it lends this process through making liquor less accessible. But this end is also achieved by the English system of restricted licensing. When the situation is thus reduced to its fundamentals, it is hard to see that our "noble experiment" could not advantageously be replaced by one which would retain the nobility of purpose without the accompanying disruption of the whole life of the nation...
...tone of seriousness accompanying the facts. The paper from Wisconsin states that if the number of drinkers and non-drinkers could be ascertained, a basis for an intelligent observation would be laid. However, a poll asking "Do you drink" could not do this, according to this belligerent sheet. The indirect methods, they say, must be used. How much grain and juniper juice is consumed? How much crime and poverty exists...
...salt tax is one of the most immoral acts this Government has ever been responsible for, especially because it is collected stealthily [i. e. as an indirect tax]. [Our] next attack should be on [other] taxes which are just as immoral. I mean the liquor and opium taxes. Through the Indian Government's monopoly of opium production, India has been made responsible for drugging the world, and her own children have been made poor and miserable by the contraction of these degenerating drink and drug habits...