Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, you don't know Jersey City. I suggest that in making your announcement in subsequent issues of TIME, you state it thusly: "Now you can read TIME on the same day of the week you have always read it-which depends on your local Post-master...
Appointed special master to recommend on the issue to the Supreme Court of the U. S. was Lawyer John S. Flannery of Washington. Last week Master Flannery made his report, and Massachusetts, with a tax claim of $4,947,008, was his pick...
Dodging State taxes was, reported Master Flannery, a preoccupation of Colonel Green, as it had been of his mother. He had managed to pay no income taxes to any State by the simple process of citing to the tax collectors of each his residence in the others, especially Texas. Sharply condemning "migratory millionaires," Master Flannery opined that "conduct is of greater evidential value than mere declaration of intent...
...Supreme Court will accept briefs from the three disappointed States if they protest Master Flannery's findings. Should their claims be allowed as well as Massachusetts', Ned Green's estate will fall $1,589,000 short of paying them...
...Carolinas, the college boys are required to drink a jug of "so'th'n cawn" to prove they are gentlemen and scholars. Ther is no necessity for such measures at the University of Virginia. It is considered an insult even to intimate that a Virginian could not master such a meagre portion of the brew on which he has been raised...