Word: morass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Province after province appealing to the Central Government to pull them out of the financial morass into which they have themselves plunged...
...Then where is he?" demanded Consul Geist, receiving for answer a characteristic froglike stare. Accustomed to this, as are all consuls in Germany, Mr. Geist pursued his search, could not find Prisoner Roiderer last week in the curious morass of the New Justice...
...income of a corporation which accumulates surpluses in excess of what the Government believes it "reasonably" needs. Month ago the Treasury Department launched a drive to collect such penalties from some 100 U. S. corporations (TIME, Oct. 29). The Treasury Department found itself in a morass of legal tangles arising from the difficulty of deciding what needs are ''reasonable." It was clear from last week's outpouring of extra dividends that many a corporation had decided to split swollen surpluses with its stockholders before Congress meets in January to tighten the revenue law's definitions...
...first address to the American people since last June, Mr. Roosevelt reviewed the nation's progress out of the economic morass...
...Even more strongly than a year ago the country is gripped by the moral and economic confusion from which the world is suffering. Despite the economic morass in which the country finds itself, additional taxation is impossible. Therefore expenditures must be still further reduced. . . . Results of our commercial treaties during the past year have not been entirely satisfactory. Since further prospects in this regard are worse rather than better, increasing attention must be paid to the development of home markets...