Word: token
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Excise taxes, the President said, should be reduced only if the tax revenue is made up elsewhere. This could be done in part, he suggested, by plugging the loopholes. Loophole No. 1 is the law which allows "the oil and mining interests" to pay only "token contributions" from their huge incomes, he said. He told of one oilman who earned $5,000,000 in a single year and paid no income...
They contend that by such a token every anti-Nazi was in some way affiliated with the Communists. They find it hard to believe that Emmanuel's presence at the funeral of a Communist or his official trip to Communist Eastern Europe brand him a Communist himself...
...last ambassadorial duty to perform. On orders from Formosa, he gave ?20 toward medical expenses for ailing Lien-ho, the giant panda presented to the London Zoo in 1946 by Nationalist China as a token of friendship...