Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while you're at the job, try to figure out a real honest-to-God Roosevelt New Dealer to take over the old man's job, so we can all get out of the fishbowl...
...known Senator Clark for nearly 20 years and lived with him a year at Notre Dame. I still regard him as having the best mind, memory and fund of general knowledge of anyone I've ever known. He turned down a chance to take the exams for a Rhodes Scholarship in order to go to Harvard Law School. He was a much better scholar than...
Since he did not propose increasing at once the amounts paid out for old age benefits, Mr. Morgenthau had to take the one other method of keeping the reserve fund down. Granting that payroll taxes might be slowing Recovery, he proposed either to reduce the rate of increase in old-age levies (scheduled to rise next January from 1% to 1½% on employers and employes), or to postpone any increase at all until 1943. That seemed just as pleasing to Congress, just as appeasing to business, as correcting a bad boner in the Social Security...
...Well, they never would. Not for nothing had he sat through two showings of the movie Jesse James. This was his country, the Beartooth Mountains. Here he could live indefinitely with only his rifle and knife, eating his game raw by preference, hiding out in caves. They would never take him back; at least, not alive...
...Bone apparently failed to take into account that many States do not allow taxpayers to deduct Federal taxes in figuring their State income tax. Bone, Nye & Co. proposed such wartime tax rates that many top-bracket taxpayers would find their total taxes all but swallowing their net income (but not exceeding it, as newspapers reported last week). In New York, for example (which has a State tax graduated up to 7% plus a 1% emergency tax), a $500,000-a-year man in a war year would have to pay Federal and State income taxes totaling...