Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Certainly he had, replied Mr. Mellon. It would have been "stupid" to do otherwise. But only conscience and patriotism had made him pay any tax at all. "I could have, at the time," countered he, "selected enough losses to offset any or all taxes that might have been due. But I felt I still had an income and ought to pay a substantial tax. So I sold Pittsburgh Coal largely to adjust the figure and reach an amount that would be in my mind a justifiable and fair...
...direct attack against all laborers. Obviously the only intelligent course of action is to await the arrival of a test case, or better still, create a test case, and push it to the Supreme Court. The opposition of ignorant propaganda to ignorant propaganda will inevitably produce a stupid mess...
When the boom was rising, a mysterious message would appear in the United States Treasury, telling the whole story. By that time it would be too late to renounce recovery, no matter how hard the administration tried. Selfish and stupid people the country over would have been fooled out of their depression...
Each contestant must seize his charts from the ward supervisor. Then he is required to make a complete circuit of the room, only breaking his stride to smile an inclusive grin at the ceiling. No answers are required to any stupid questions and most of them fall in this category. A good man can make it in seven seconds...
...With stupid judges on the bench, the same as there are stupid employers of labor who refuse to give the workers what the law states they shall have, it is up to the workers to organize to such an extent that their economic strength will make it unhealthy for a judge to defy you! Don't lose faith because a couple of judges have handed down decisions on questions of vital importance which seem to defeat all you are aiming for. We are to appeal these decisions to the highest courts in the land and will have these decisions...