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Word: stumps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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From a situation that could not be misconstrued even by the average student, the dance manager selection has been blotched into a mess that would stump anyone but a shyster lawyer. Here are the dates in the evolution of this comedy of errors. -The Daily Kansan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN OPEN LETTER TO STUDENTS | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

...still have something like a year to go before my subscription runs out. If you are any kind of sports I stump you to publish this letter in your Letters page with your 'Ultrasmart" comments, and send me that issue of TIME. You can then discontinue sending me any further issues. Whatever money you save in the deal, buy something for your staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...stump of the undistributed profits tax (most publicized of all the irritating kittens it was cut last year from 7%-27,% to 0%-21/2%. That action angered Franklin Roosevelt so that he refused to sign the bill, let it become a law without his signature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Henny-Penny's Inning | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...strangled the rabbit because Undersecretary Hanes bred it without even a stump of the undistributed profits tax tail which Franklin Roosevelt so much admired in the 1936 tax rabbit bred by the late Herman Oliphant.* In simple terms, the Hanes formula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Strangled Rabbit | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...strangled the rabbit because Undersecretary Hanes bred it without even a stump of the undistributed profits tax tail which Franklin Roosevelt so much admired in the 1936 tax rabbit bred by the late Herman Oliphant.-In simple terms, the Hanes formula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Strangled Rabbit | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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