Word: porting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time suggesting reciprocal tax powers for the States), he was primarily seeking new sources of Federal revenue. The way to such a source was apparently opened last year by the Supreme Court's ruling that the U. S. might tax the pay of employes of the Port of New York Authority and similar quasi-public bodies (TIME, June...
...York's Attorney General retaliated for the Port Authority levy by trying to collect State income tax upon the Federal salary of an attorney for HOLC (TIME, Nov. 28). Utah's Attorney General tried to collect on the salary of an RFC attorney. In each case, the State's high court ruled against its Attorney General. No one was surprised, for 120 years ago, in a somewhat similar case, McCulloch v. Maryland, U. S. Chief Justice Marshall ruled against Maryland saying: "The power to tax involves the power to destroy." This week the U. S. Supreme Court...
...stories of attacks by Poles on German women and children, the all-too-familiar German method of preparatory propaganda before expanding the Reich frontiers. The rolling stock of the Polish Railway Administration was removed from Danzig and environs and "more than 10,000 troops" were moved into Gdynia, Polish port twelve miles from Danzig. The Polish standing Army was increased to some 400,000 men and the Polish Army journal, Polska Zbrojna, published a defiant editorial labeled We Are Ready...
...week's end France was confident that a satisfactory deal could be made with Italy which would necessitate giving up only a few of the concessions demanded by Italy-such as a free port at Djibouti, the Addis Ababa railway, and a share in the Suez Canal. But England was confident three weeks ago that Adolf Hitler would behave himself. As for the Italian people, they were anxious for glory but somewhat jittery. Signor Mussolini closed his speech with an old Fascist motto: "Believe! Obey! Fight!" The Italians knew whom to obey, but just what to believe and whom...
...authoritative Army and Navy Register reported that in port at Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands, after Caribbean maneuvers, sailors of the U. S. fleet bought $3,472.26 worth of native baskets, cocktail napkins, fingertip towels, baby bibs...