Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goodwill. At a press conference the week before. President Roosevelt's target had been corporation gifts to charity. What right had corporations, he demanded, to buy goodwill by giving away their stockholders' money? In wide circulation last week was the following response by Preston S. Arkwright, president of Georgia Power...
...contributions have been made. They also, in light of Mr. Roosevelt's statements, provide an illustration of the fact that, quite often, goodwill is not gained by our efforts to assist worth while agencies." Silent Secretary. In four prime respects the House Ways & Means Commit tee went wide of the specifications laid down by President Roosevelt. Instead of grading up surtaxes only on individual in comes of $1,000,000 or more, it began with middling $50,000 incomes. Instead of a corporation income tax grading up from 10¾|% to 16¾% according to size of income...
...have," replied the foreman. "We find the defendant not guilty." Judge Bryant jerked upright, a grey forelock falling over his wide, incredulous eyes. From the courtroom rose a shrill burst of female cheers. The judge banged his gavel, got quiet. Turning to the jury, he cried in a voice sharp with scorn: "You have labored long, and no doubt have given careful consideration to this case. Before I discharge you I will have to say that your verdict is such that shakes the confidence of law-abiding people in integrity and truth...
...Nobel Peace Prize, Vanity Fair also showed J. P. Morgan making a stump speech against Capitalism, Admiral Byrd wintering in tropical Tahiti, William Randolph Hearst as Ambassador to Soviet Russia and Huey Long in a friar's robe entering a monastery. To crack this page of mirth wide open it was captioned "NOT ON YOUR TINTYPE. Five highly unlikely historical situations by one who is sick of the same old headlines...
...that it does away with eleven pounds of the lead which is used to weight all piano keys, especially those in the bass. No cure-all for music students, the Finholm action nevertheless lightens such pianistic labors as the octave tremolos and runs in display pieces. When put in wide production it may decrease the cost of piano making, may be installed in old pianos for about...