Word: portions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign trade of South America is worth several billions of dollars. Trade agreements, such as the president is authorized to make under the Trade Agreements Act, will go far in aiding American industry to secure a substantial portion of this valuable commerce...
...consequences were to be expected from another error. Noting that the sole candidate for Congress in the first district of the Democratic State of Tennessee was Brazilla Carroll Reece, the Democratic National Committee sent him a cordial letter of endorsement. However, the first district is in the eastern, mountainous portion of the State; Candidate Reece happens to be a Republican Congressman. It was grim news to Mr. Fletcher. No blunders by his opponents could help him much...
...about" he cracked back as follows: "Let me make it clear to you that the Government of the U. S. has daily and even hourly contact with sources of information which cover not only every State and section of our own country, but also every other portion of the habitable globe. This information is more complete, informative and accurate than that possessed by any private agency...
Secondly, Mr. Chase writes an attack on science and a defense of humanism. This portion of his article will provide abundant material for what in simpler circles than those of Harvard undergraduates are called "bull sessions." "For after all," he writes, "facts, especially scientific facts, are the most untruthful things there are." That is going a bit further than Kant, though like Kant, Mr. Chase does find truths at last in moral judgments. Lord Bacon went wrong because, though he had a scientific education, he had no moral education. It is difficult here to avoid making a debater's point...
...corporation may dispose of its net profits by: 1) paying dividends; 2) building up a surplus. On the portion it distributes in dividends the Federal Government collects a stiff surtax. On the portion which it puts aside for reasonable future needs or emergencies the Government lays no tax. An obvious corporate temptation is to avoid taxation by tucking the fattest possible share of profits into surplus. Almost irresistible is this temptation if the corporation also happens to be a personal holding company...