Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authorized in principle by AAA II whenever appropriations are made for them. Mr. Wallace boldly suggested that the best way to finance the payments would be to revive processing taxes, which the Supreme Court found illegal. "Why not use this kind of a tax once more?" he demanded. "We know it will work because it has worked...
...DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828). When they throw the emptied package away, they provide an occupation for untold numbers of scavengers who hunt not only for cellophane and tinfoil wrappings but for untorn revenue stamps. These stamps are not canceled. They can be steamed off, used again. Federal authorities well know that there are crooked, tax-dodging cigaret manufacturers who pay ½? for every undamaged DeWitt Clinton 6-center brought to them. Last week in U. S. District Court, Manhattan, indictments were returned charging alleged practitioners of this racket with combined finaglings which had deprived the U.S. Treasury of some...
Boston did not know, possibly, that their reporters' only source of news was the Central Square desk sergeant; that a Cambridge policeman had made the four arrests (and had arrested, inevitably, the wrong men); that a Cambridge policeman was asking the pound of flesh; that the Post Commander was another Cambridge policeman...
...know whether or not it will be revised, but there will be a big fight over the Wagner Act in the coming Congressional session," Sweezy predicted. Although the A. F. of L. will fight for removal of the power to determine the collective bargaining unit from the hands of the Labor Relations Board, the economics instructor said, "In all cases I have studied, the Board picked the bargaining unit with the utmost fairness, showing no favoritism...
...School comedian started the evening going when he stepped to the platform and began to complain about his room in Hastings Hall. "I live at 51 Hastings," he said, "a room with adjoining towel. It's so small I have to go outside to change my mind, and, you know, we're so cramped that we've taught the dog to wag his tail up and down...