Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only the high regard which I have for the Veritas emblazoned on the Harvard seal-a word which seems to have escaped Mr. Tunis's attention, or possibly exceeded his ability in translation-forces me to step into the white light of publicity, and confess that I am the wreck that penned those pitiful words that headline your column on Education (TIME, Sept. 14), "After 25 years I am an utter failure, morally, mentally, and financially...
...GOLDBLATT BROTHERS IS AN ALL TIME HIGH FOR NEWS REPORTING THAT HITS BELOW THE BELT AND IS MADE OF THE NASTY STUFF THAT FANS THE FLAMES OF RACE PREJUDICE. HAS TIME INHERITED THE DISTINCTION OF BECOMING HITLER'S MOST HELPFUL MOUTHPIECE IN AMERICA? YOUR COURAGEOUS PUBLICATION SHOULD SIDE STEP THE TEMPTATION OF TAKING OCCASIONAL WALLOPS AT THE JEWS. HAPPY NEW YEAR...
...hospital at Dedinje, Yugoslavia, broke her religious vows, ran away, married a patient she had nursed through a long illness. In Manhattan her nervous, energetic, expatriate brother, Louis Adamic, author of two books on the sturdy Adamic family, observed, "She asks me, naively, to forgive her for the step. . . . She is one of the finest and most beautiful girls that ever lived. ... A man who could make her escape after five years must have strength.'' Thus U. S. newsreaders learned of the most recent development in what has gradually become one of the most celebrated peasant families...
...Republicans obligingly documented their case with a list of 58 taxes which, they claimed, added 2? to the price of bread. An amazing political document, the list contained not 58 different kinds of taxes, but only 16 types, which the Republicans had multiplied by applying them individually at each step in the process of making and selling a loaf of bread. Thus a Federal income tax paid by farmer, grain elevator, flour mill, railroad, flour trucker, baking company and retail distributor counted as seven taxes. Even after multiplication, it was shown that only 13 of the 58 taxes were Federal...
...credit to the financial knowledge of Eastern editors was their astonishment. Marriner Eccles was altogether too big a financial and industrial figure in the West to step completely out of its business scene when he moved to Washington. He not only had to run Eccles Investment Co., which manages the family fortune, but also the family's large Stoddard Lumber Co., First Security Corp. which owns 26 banks in Utah and Idaho, one in Wyoming, Sego Milk Products (now a subsidiary of Pet), Utah Construction Co. (one of Six Companies, Inc. which helped build Boulder Dam) and several lesser...