Word: abolish
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...most putrid spots "out of bounds." Military medicos provide soldiers with oral caution beforehand, treatment afterward, encourage local authorities to provide free prophylaxis stations. Army (and Navy) doctors generally prefer controlled segregation, covertly discourage the more extreme efforts of such agencies as the American Social Hygiene Association to abolish prostitution by legal action. Theory (which the Association disputes): when the business scatters, disease increases. Last week the Association proposed that Congress make prostitution within 15 miles of Army and Navy posts a Federal offense...
Planners like Tugwell have been batting up a novel solution to this problem: abolish local real-estate taxes altogether. Property owners would pay just an income tax, and that to the Federal Government. Even cautious politicos like LaGuardia have been intrigued. Last winter he told the New York Board of Trade he wanted just one big tax collector -the Federal Government. The taxes it collected from each city and State would be allocated back to them on a kind of credit system. Workable or not, this kind of arrangement would do two things: it would stop the tax race between...
...Order last week. The 84-year-old Marshal announced that, departing from the "universal bankruptcy of economic liberalism," France would seek a "harmonious combination of authority and liberty." The New Order would ban strikes and lockouts, break power trusts, regulate prices, control foreign commerce and exchange, abolish the gold standard, break away from traditional friendships and enmities, drop the Entente Cordiale with Great Britain, reinstate "true nationalism," base all French foreign relations upon collaboration with Germany...
Died. Leon Forrest Douglass, 71, millionaire inventor and co-founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company; after a long illness; in San Francisco. Once said to have "done more to abolish peace and quiet than anyone else now living," Douglass gave Edison's phonograph a spring motor, brought its inventor his first cash reward. Once he had his daughter fight an octopus to publicize his underwater camera. Other Douglass inventions: a magnetic torpedo for World War I, the first pay telephone, a device for double reproduction of sound in radio...
...Treasury" for such piddling practices as forcing General John J. Pershing to pay for his own Pullman ticket after he had lost his voucher. Franklin Roosevelt, who cares little for such trivialities, was glad to see McCarl's term expire in 1936. After an unsuccessful attempt to abolish the post, he offered it to Warren, who promptly refused. This time, with billions going for defense, the President needed more than ever a man he could trust...