Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another for not voting down the bill. Beards bristled, tongues wagged. How ever had it all happened, asked the Deputies, amazed at themselves? The explanation seemed to be that Josef Pilsudski knows his Poland. From the new budget he will derive alarmingly great sums to spend upon his special toy, the army...
...block party on Champa Street (outside the Post offices), with 21 bombs fired, bands playing, revelry-to signalize the opening of a tunnel through the nearby Rocky Mountains (see p. 9). Dance halls threw themselves open. Radio reported a Manhattan prizefight (Delaney-Maloney, see p. 27) and "as a special feature" a death dive -a man hanging by his teeth to a pulley, sliding down a wire from the Post's roof to the street...
...Treasury Andrew W. Mellon has decided that in 1913 Ford stock was worth between $2,500 and $5,500 a share. If so, the minority stockholders who sold in 1919 owe the Government back income taxes of $15,000,000 to $30,000,000, as may decide the Special U. S. Board of Tax Appeals that has been sitting in Washington. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Daniel C. Roper had no authority to do Ford company stockholders the favor of estimating the tax value of their property. In fine, the Government has never officially decided what the income tax in this...
Spellbound, on special matinees, expounds the curse of cursing drink. It holds up the horrible example of a mother so intent upon defeating Demon Rum that she flushes her two little sons with anti-whiskey solutions. The result: one becomes a mute, the other a paralytic. Later in life, a thunderstorm suddenly starts up during the third act to provide atmosphere while the mute is engaged in raping a girl. This reprehensible sight so enrages the paralytic (20 years bedridden) that he suddenly renews his synaptic connections, skips out of bed, does successful battle for the Right. The play...
Similarly, in special cases the Committee will add information from the office files to a photograph which has been sent in, and will supplement information with photographs from the Red Book: but in no case will both deficiencies be filled...