Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...killed a Yankee, worked like a slave keeping the family alive. After the War, Ashley came back, had to refuse Scarlett again despite his growing love and admiration for her. Scarlett dashed off to Atlanta to sell herself to rich Rhett Butler for money enough to save the plantation from the carpetbaggers. He turned her down. She married a soft-headed Southern gentleman, although he was engaged to her sister, because she wanted his money. Soon she was running a store, making more money with a sawmill run with convict labor, taking up with the despised Yankees, making enemies among...
...another guest was High Commissioner Frank Murphy coming to say "Hail" in token of his return from the Philippines, "Farewell" before departing for Philadelphia, in the interval to taste some White House food and while away a couple of hours planning a U. S.-Philippine conference to try to save the Philippines from the economic pains of independence...
...Save for some months during the War, in training as a machine-gunner at Camp Hancock, Ga., the rest of his life has been devoted to law and politics. In law he made an astute alliance with Ralph T. ("Dyke") O'Neil, past commander of the American Legion and a Democrat. The firm of Hamilton & O'Neil, with feet in both political camps, did well. In 1934 Partner O'Neil got involved in the War Department supply scandals but Partner Hamilton was not entangled. In politics Hamilton started at the bottom as a precinct captain...
Chief feature of the original House bill was that it virtually abolished all corporation income taxes save undistributed profits taxes, thereby encouraging dividend disbursements, placing the Government's income-tax burden squarely on individual taxpayers, avoiding, in theory at least, cumbrous double taxation (on corporations and again on stockholders...
...Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman was threatened with impeachment because he (1 denounced the Constitution of the U. S., 2 supported the Wagner Labor Act, 3 insulted a U. S. district judge, misused WPA funds, S made extraordinary attempts to save the life of Bruno Hauptmann...