Word: reference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Please refer to your issue of Sept. 9, p. 52 in the column on Education. Mr. Crabtree (Secretary of the National Education Association) complains that chain stores and mail order houses pick up profits in villages which are taxed at the headquarters in a far away place. We wish Mr. Crabtree would explain just how this is done, as profits are taxed under the Federal Income Tax law and I supposed that the taxes went to Washington whether the owners of a business lived in the village where it is conducted or in a large city far away. Perhaps...
...taste that at 5:30 a. m. Gilbert, still sitting up and still alone, got into his car and drove off at a furious pace into the Riviera dawn. Mrs. Gilbert came home, became excited, threw some things in a suitcase, went away somewhere. Reunited in Paris, they now refer to this incident as a "slight tiff." They are returning to the U. S. soon to make more pictures...
When his turn came, Mr. Churchill began : "In expressing my thanks to you for your kind welcome, and to our hosts for the all too nattering terms in which they refer...
After Mr. Churchill had finished and sat down, a scratchy, Churchillesque voice began to speak from somewhere: "In ex pressing my thanks to you for your kind welcome, and to our hosts for the all too flattering terms in which they refer to me . . ." Mr. Churchill flushed, grinned, heard his own speech -which had been sound-recorded without his knowledge...
...direct him to reject all pending mail contracts until Congress could decide whether the lagniappe should actually go to Shipping Board buyers, or whether, now that the fleets were sold, the contracts might not be given to lowest bidders as required by law. The President indicated that he would refer this delicate ethical question to Congress...