Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bogart winds up the picture with an impassioned denunciation of society for causing the boy to go wrong, but Derek fries anyway. The only thing lacking is Lauren Bacall to console poor Humphrey when things turn out badly...
John Derck, a new product of the star mill who looks as if he should do right well for himself, snarls his way through a ninety-minute career as the poor boy who goes bad and does a fine job of it. He starts out by rolling drunks in alleys, works the reform school circuit for a while, swaggers up to be a big gun in his thoroughly realistic neighborhood, drives his good faithful wife to sticking her head in the gas-oven, and finally is hauled up on a cop-killing charge. Bogart, who has also come up from...
...Poor Millionaire. People with incomes of $10,000 or more made up only 1.79% of all taxpayers, but they paid 42.14% of the tax. Only the returns of people in high income brackets got automatic, detailed inspection. But the average man could get scant comfort from this- all returns were checked for arithmetic and obvious larceny, and 150,000 would be picked at random during 1949 and investigated down to the last deduction...
...citizen of South Carolina first and a veteran second. In a state as poor as we are, I would be for $60 million for roads and for schools. We have [only] so much wealth, and we have to help the state by making it go around ... I certainly am willing to put my political life on the line any time for this country...
Like others among Britain's newly poor, Lady Mountbatten is a victim of crushing taxes, which each year take ?65,000 ($260,000) of the ?70,000 ($280,000) she receives. But what really did her in was last year's "capital contribution," which raised her tax bill to ?100,000 ($400,000)-?30,000 ($120,000) more than she took in. Unless the Lords permitted her to dip into capital or borrow on future income, Lady Mountbatten would become a tax delinquent...