Word: intentions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giving the Philippines the $50,000,000 (100,000,000 pesos) proceeds of the coconut oil processing tax which the U. S. imposed in 1934. So President Quezon, although he bitterly opposed the original imposition of the tax, now has 100,000,000 pesos to spend and is intent on getting full credit for it. To a special session of his legislature, he explained how he proposed to start spending this windfall...
Your article entitled "On Top," which appeared in the July 12 issue of TIME, contains one statement derogatory to me, and others which are without the slightest basis in fact. I am sure that your article was written and published with the best intent. I, therefore, hope that in justice to me and to your readers you will give this letter a prominence equal to the article which contained the misstatements...
...Wisconsin, which already required Wasserman tests of males and which last week extended the requirement to females. As if Illinois' antivenereal restrictions weren't enough the State this week awaited its Governor's signature to a law requiring posting of three days' notice of intent...
...whether a firm's profits are increasing so fast as to suggest "profiteering" or not, Simple Simon's tax is to bear with equal weight on virtually all British firms with annual net profits of more than $10,000 per year. It is a supertax. Its intent is to raise the existing average 25% income tax on British firms to 29% in the case of partnerships, 30% in the case of corporations. Exempt from such super-taxing for Rearmament are to be salaried employes, doctors, lawyers, accountants and professional people generally-very few of whom in Britain earn...
...Aluminum Company of America. It had refused to decide six cases on which it had heard argument and ordered them reargued in the autumn. Yet in spite of all these things, the Court had adjourned for four months because eight old men needed rest.* Of course he was still intent on judicial reform...