Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...testimony came out through a House Ways & Means Committee inquiry into a tax question: should the lender, John A. Hartford, president of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., be permitted a $196,000 income-tax deduction for his loss on the loan? By a strict Democratic majority, the committee voted not to challenge the deduction. Minority Republicans dissented. They also carefully noted the history of the loan, as described in testimony before the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and thereby recorded one of the most unusual chapters in the history of the 31st President...
Veterans of the war with Japan, returning from service or imprisonment, warned the U.S. against mistaking Japanese guile for submission, urged a long and strict occupation...
While MacArthur's statements, made for U.S. consumption, radiated confidence and hope, his orders to the Japanese were still stern and strict. He had started rounding up war criminals, had cracked down on propaganda agencies (see PRESS), announced plans for re-educating the Japanese in democratic ways, and demanded from the Japanese Government details of looting in occupied countries...
...those who share Mr. Taylor's opinions will look under the ashes of those dead Japs, they will probably see that our strict control of this menace can turn it into the most powerful deterrent to future wars of aggression which has or is likely to come to light. CARTER HOLMES Dallas...
...annual message to Congress he had made an equivocal promise to implement the people's will. But the President would have to introduce new electoral procedure, clearly tell the P.R.M. to keep its hands off the ballot boxes, and perhaps even insure a fair count by strict, nonpartisan supervision before his promise became fact...