Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Refunds. Large corporations pay large income taxes, sometimes get large refunds back from the government. According to Representative John N. Garner (Dem.) of Texas, the U. S. Treasury has paid $2,000,000,000 in refunds and secret credits to taxpayers, during Andrew W. Mellon's term as Secretary of the Treasury. Congressman Garner called the Treasury Secretary a "Santa Claus" to large corporations, objected particularly to refunds made to the U. S. Aluminum Co., controlled by Mellon interests. Claiming that Aluminum Co. refunds totalled $1,267,426, Congressman Garner said: "Mr. Mellon, this grand Secretary that you hear...
...medicine has become so complex that the general practitioner must usually call in a specialist for many services which formerly he did himself. The patient pays two fees, usually (in Manhattan and other large communities) $10 to the family doctor, $35 to the specialist. And usually the specialist secretly rebates a few dollars to the small doctor who called him into consultation. Fee-splitting in the U. S. "has grown to alarming proportions." It results, stated Dr. Hartwell categorically, "in two evils: 1) the selection by the family physician of a specialist who will pay the rebate, which may readily...
...international headquarters Aunt Evangeline inquired for Niece Catherine. Niece Catherine sent word she would be down presently, and then departed privily by a side door for home. Eventually the two did meet, but what passed between them was kept a family secret...
...public's interests). The railroads soon recognized that such promiscuous buffeting was unprofitable. For one thing, the turmoil made their customers aware that not yet were all great corporations "good corporations," like Judge Gary's U. S. Steel Corp. So the railroad executives withdrew to secret confabulations and pacts...
...most popular play that ever ran in Manhattan was Abie's Irish Rose, which closed with its 2,400th performance on the night of Oct. 22, 1927. No one ever learned what glib compelling secret Anne Nichols had put into her play to make so many people want to see it. She herself has not been able to repeat its success; imitators have been unable, in story, play or cinema to duplicate its homely attractions...