Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temp of the Senate, Candidate Barkley took his seat with the others. The chairman appointed McKellar (a Barkley man) and Russell (for Harrison) to count the ballots. Senator Black, secretary of the majority conference, prepared to write them down. Carter Glass, oldest man in the Senate, offered his battered Panama for a ballot box. prompting New Jersey's Smarty Smathers, three months a Senator, to crack about secret ballots in a glass...
...palace in Panama last week sat sturdy little President Dr. Juan Demosthenes Arosemena, smiling contentedly. He had just received official messages from Oscar Teran, the Governor of Chiriqui Province, and Captain Nicolas Sagel of the Panama police confirming that three weatherbeaten prospectors, stumbling into an abandoned mine shaft, had found a huge number of 50-lb. gold ingots, worth not $1,120,000 as previously reported (TIME, July 26). but some...
...warm U. S. tourists bustled and Panamanian loafers ogled in the railway station at Colon, C. Z., one day last week, few noticed a swart, perspiring gentleman who descended from the Panama City train with his wife and five children in tow. But everyone turned in terror as with a sudden ccr-a-a-c-k a fierce-eyed fellow lashed out at him with a horsewhip. Soon the two were grappling for a revolver, rending the air with torrid Spanish curses. Police intervened and hustled both men off to jail...
Bill of Particulars. Mr. Morgenthau listed eight kinds of tax-dodging, all of which he classed as "moral fraud": 1) setting up personal holding companies in the Bahamas, Panama, Newfoundland and other places from which tax money cannot be extradited; 2) buying one-payment life insurance (from a Bahama company), borrowing back the "payment" and claiming tax deductions for interest paid on the loan;* 3) establishing personal holding companies in the U. S., which in spite of special taxes still pays those who are rich enough; 4) incorporating yachts, town houses, country estates, racing stables so that their operating losses...
...sure enough, Standish's absence was discovered, and the ship put about to look for him. It would make her a day late in Panama, but duty was duty. As the calm narrative steams slowly towards its climax the suspense in which Author Lewis dangles his hero and the reader grows more excruciating...