Word: comments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unsatisfactory present methods are was shown at a recent meeting of Massachusetts assessors. It was reported in the press that when Commissioner Henry F. Long asked those assessors who had not violated the oath of office to stand, no one arose. In the financial comment in the Boston Herald of December 13, 1929, it was stated, referring to current selling of stocks to register losses for the reduction of federal income tax payments.--"The psychology of tax evasion is peculiar. Men scrupulously honest in money matters in general apparently feel no compunction about adopting any schemes which are legal which...
...labored many a year. It so happened that the Hoover plan-which Mr. Gibson had in his pocket-paralleled almost exactly in its two most important aspects the Litvinov scheme,* though no one present knew that then except Mr. Gibson. Plan in pocket, he let Litvinov talk, declined to comment in open meeting, told correspondents privately that the Soviet scheme was not worthy of comment or consideration, suggested that Comrade Litvinov had presented it in bad faith...
...reply through the same slow grapevine via which he received the U. S. note, namely the French Embassy at Moscow. Correspondents cabled it direct, caused Statesman Stimson's acute embarrassment, placed him in a position where he found it necessary to break a state department rule and comment on a communication from a foreign power before he actually received...
Last week's concert, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, called for little critical comment. It was a ceremonial affair. Glazounov, like most great composers, is an indifferent conductor. He had only a scratch orchestra at his command. Yet a great audience gathered to pay tribute, arose when he appeared, applauded continually. Similarly was he honored fortnight ago in Detroit. He will appear also in Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston...
...East and middle West. "I enjoy the travel but I do not like your Pullman cars, they irritate me," he said. He was recently at Cornell and in the near future expects to go to New York. "That is something one must work up to," was his comment on this impending experience