Word: parental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Société Française Nestlé, makers of chocolate and prepared baby foods, claims complete independence of the parent company in Switzerland "except for the exchange of friendly ideas in the realm of publicity and advertising." One of their friendly ideas was the Old Masters Series which Swiss Artist Louis Rivier suggested to the Swiss company. Artist Rivier set to work, produced four pictures. Nestlé arranged for them to be printed in L'lllustration at an advertising rate of about $2,250 a page...
...satisfies, and I relish the irony of truth; but my security in my own happiness is not indifference to that of others: I rejoice that every one should have his tastes and his pleasures. That I am conceited, it would be folly to deny: what artist, what thinker, what parent does not overestimate his own offspring...
...Holding companies are no longer permitted to file consolidated Federal income tax returns. Under the old law the losses of one subsidiary were deductible from the profits of another in the same group, thus reflecting operations of the enterprise as a whole. Today every corporation, parent or subsidiary, must file a separate return, pay its own tax. Aside from the nuisance, this is a distinct disadvantage to a company with subsidiaries showing both profits and losses, since no credit is received for the losses...
...California authorities were at sea concerning the legal aspects of Ann Cooper Hewitt's case. The State's 23-year-old sterilization law applies only to inmates of prisons and asylums. The legal adviser of the State Board of Medical Examiners was of the opinion that any parent may have a minor child sterilized, that the child's only recourse is to sue parent and physician within one year after attaining majority. Ann Hewitt's was the first such suit he knew of. At week's end an Assistant District Attorney in San Francisco offered...
...become a boy is never clear; it is something about getting over to England with her father, Henry Scarlett (Edmund Gwenn). who wants to start life anew as a lace-smuggler. But once Miss Hepburn has her trousers on, and she and her inept, ingenuous miscreant of a parent have met Gary Grant, a cockney adventurer with smuggled diamonds in his bootheels. Sylvia Scarlett becomes good entertainment...