Word: needless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recommend the rejection of this bill as a needless, futile and utterly dangerous abandonment of Constitutional principle...
...city of New York alone costs Federal, State and city governments more than $17,000,000 per year. Only since the War has there been serious attention paid to that field of law which aims to avoid litigation, namely, arbitration. Prime U. S. force seeking to eliminate needless litigation is the American Arbitration Association, which this month is starting its twelfth year of activity...
...business troubles courageously, acknowledges his responsibility to the community by serving on the :own council. A natural point of pressure from both the haves and the havenots, Jim runs into his first dilemma when the town's poor folk and laborers want him to authorize construction of a needless high school, while the town's rich folk warn him that he had better not do anything o raise taxes. The boycott on his store which follows Jim's honest decision on the high school affair is nothing to the anguish of his next difficulty...
Three years ago he made a study of the British income tax system for Secretary Morgenthau. He advocates: simplifying the tax laws to save taxpayers much needless litigation; putting the Bureau of Internal Revenue on a career instead of patronage basis; an entirely new method of taxing capital gains. Not since Congress in 1930 created the job of Director of the Bureau of Prisons has it been vacant...
Soon Madam Perkins learned, however, that her anxiety was needless. In the small hours of the morning Governor Frank Murphy had arrived in Flint. "This is not going to be a brawl," he announced, and issued a call to the National Guard. Soon 2,300 Guardsmen were in Flint, most of them camping on the grounds and in the building of Flint's abandoned junior high school. Among the guardsmen called to the colors was one Verl Lahs, a sit-down striker in the Cadillac plant in Detroit. His fellow strikers voted to excuse him from sit-down duty...