Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only dissenting note came from Fink K. Flink, a Yale potentiate who was hardly startled at all. Fink did have a word of advice for the Princetonians though. "It can't be used as legal tender anywhere outside of New Haven you know...
...report advocates lower income taxes together with forty changes in the Federal Revenue Code. This is the report which Drew Pearson charged was prepared on Wall Street. He claimed that if its suggestions were adopted the income tax laws would be shot so full of holes that even a legal novice could prove that the government owes taxes to the corporations...
Equalization posed many a legal problem. The method most likely to be adopted by Congress: permit all married couples to split their income for federal tax purposes, even in states where such division has no authority in state...
...present, both the U.S. dollar and the Dominican peso will be legal tender, but after three months, by Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's law, the dollar may be withdrawn from general circulation. The Central Bank will have the right to control all dollar exchange. Chief advantage for Dictator Trujillo: complete control over all his country's dollar purchases...
...well-muscled comic talent-a gift, said one critic, for being "obviously obvious about the very obvious." His father, a Dutch banker in London, insisted that John read for the law before starting a writing career. John dutifully did, began writing Young Woodley while teaching English law and legal history at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth...