Word: indirectness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that policy," he declared, "there has been a decline of 18 points (%) in the cost of living . ... while wages are almost at the 1924 level. . . . This means an increase in the purchasing power of our wages equivalent to the remission of ?161,000,000 ($780,850,000) annually in indirect taxation." Though such a statement is all very well for electioneering purposes it completely ignores the fact that thousands of British workmen lost their jobs when British exports to the continent were curtained on account of the refusal of Europeans to pay British "gold prices" in Europe's depreciated...
...French $800,000,000, and the German only $600,000,000, even so, said Dr. Schacht, it is paradoxically true that Germany is the most heavily taxed country of all. Reason: while the Briton's and the Frenchman's tax money is spent at home, to his indirect enrichment, the German's tax payments are largely wrested from the Fatherland in the form of Reparations thus impoverishing instead of enriching, as all other nations...
...indirect effect of this corn stalk utilization is the prevention of pesty corn borer spread. Stover rotting in the fields carries the borer over from one growing season to the next...
...privateers, and leases without adequate rate-controlling and re capture clauses. Nominee Hoover had generalized from three proposals by Nominee Smith in such a way as to represent his opponent as the apostle of an entire political philosophy foreign to the U. S. In doing so he had been indirect, impersonal, but purposeful. For example, he had cited government operation of railroads, a question not under debate. And he had quoted from the late great Laborite Samuel Gompers to improve his general argument, without explaining that the Gompers quotation had reference to Government operation of railroads and that alone. These...
...world press was just on the scent of the Anglo-French negotiations by Sir Austen himself, when he committed the crowning blunder of formally alluding to them in an indirect, tantalizing manner before the House of Commons. These indefensibly premature remarks, amounting to an open boast that he had done something clever in secret which he was not yet prepared to reveal, placed upon Sir Austen Chamberlain personally an imputation of sheer obtuseness which his political enemies are now loudly tooting up and down England, in view of the approaching General Election...