Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However effective they might be in scaring the U. S. people into peace at any price, such levies would take away incentive for U. S. businessmen to help win a war. One of the 50 signers (Iowa's Guy Mark Gillette) said he expected nobody to take a confiscatory proposal seriously. And of the 50, only ten professed to have read the bill in full before they signed...
...whose members did not relish inflicting pain on their political machines back home, it faced a fight. Government lawyers this week declared that the Supreme Court's new ruling cut both ways, rendered such legislation unnecessary except to relieve State & municipal employes from levies retroactive to 1926. To take advantage of the new ruling, however, most States will have to amend their income tax laws, which specifically exempt Federal salaries. Especially prompt to act should be Maryland and Virginia, where hordes of Federal folk live near their jobs in the District of Columbia...
Jimmy Hines always tried to take good care of his family. They were devoted to him and he to them. They lived in various upper west side apartments and finally in 1930 Mrs. Hines bought a cottage at Long Beach, L. I., financed with a mortgage taken by a friend of Hines...
...Nazi government. The Germans of Danzig (about 380,000) have long clamored for a "home in the Reich"; Adolf Hitler has long wanted to oblige. But only last week realistic Josef Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister, who knows that for every inch Poland gives Germany Fuhrer Hitler will take a mile, was reported to have reminded the Reich that his country would consider the seizure of Danzig a casus belli...
...other world" knows by now not to take Herr Hitler's speeches of satiety seriously, but for those who believed that he would have to take a nap after swallowing both Czecho-Slovakia and Memel, there came a significant revision in the official text of the speech handed out to the press. In the revised version the above passage ended considerably more abruptly: "But the suffering that it inflicted on us must come...