Word: indirectness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week the Cabinet held frequent sessions, and interminable dickering and wrangling ensued behind closed doors. Despatches reported that the causes of dissension within the Government itself were two: 1) The refusal of the Cartellist Ministers,* headed by Minister of the Interior Chautemps, to approve the heavy increase in indirect taxation which is the keynote of M. Doumer's scheme. 2) The alleged success of M. Herriot in bringing M. Blum, the leader of the Unified Socialists (TIME, Nov. 23) back into the Cartel. Since the present Briand Government was formed on the basis of a majority in the Chamber which...
After this defiance Briand and Doumer were reported to have ensconced themselves in privacy and pondered well plans for "indirect taxation," which it is hoped will prove more acceptable to the Deputies and the electorate than M. Loucheur's scheme to extract eight billion francs a year from such direct and obnoxious sources as an increased tax on wine, tobacco and incomes...
...filed in February, 1921, although in many cases such settlements drag out for months, years. The Committee claims that the company should not only have had no refund, but should have paid $600,000 additional. In the warfare between Senator Couzens and Secretary Mellon, the case has only an indirect bearing, however, since it was settled at Secretary Mellon's request before he took office...
...point towards the end of his testimony when he was being questioned Colonel Mitchell remarked: "I might say this, that this is the first committee where people have been allowed to come up and talk the way they think without undue coercion, because, of course, there is always indirect coercion. Right up there [indicating] is a representative of the General Staff with a stenographer taking down everything that...
Although Mr. Dean will not direct this year's effort of the Dramatic Club, even should they decide to put on Galsworthy's play, the officers of the club nevertheless hope to secure from him suggestions and other indirect...