Word: painlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...according to a story Frank Just told Federal investigators) a lawyer with a little mustache called at the News-Sun office and introduced him self as William Goldstein. Everybody in Chicago knows that Lawyer Goldstein frequently appears as legal counsel for alleged handbook operators in their brief and painless brushes with the law. He is also an attorney for Billy Skidmore, Chicago's gambling overlord...
...Federal and State tariffs on gasoline, theatre tickets, perfumes, cigarets, restaurant checks and long-distance phone calls. Their argument : U. S. citizens should be taxed openly, directly, painfully, if tax reforms are ever to be made. Politicians have merely grinned, gone ahead passing tax bills that make taxation seem painless...