Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...sums which they give for charitable, social-welfare or unemployment-relief purposes. Individuals already have this exemption. Corporations heretofore have been forbidden it. They pay a flat 12% income tax, whereas individuals pay up to 25%. If Congress passes the bill, a likely thing, it will be the greatest boost organized charity has received for a long time. For, although Chairman Hawley of the House Ways & Means Committee introduced the resolution to Congress, the push to enactment really began with James Herbert Case, Board Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, president of the Association of Community Chests & Councils...
When 13 Manhattan acres were swept by fire (Dec. 16-17, 1835), it was a blow to the city but a boost for Nathaniel Currier. Four days after the fire he was selling lithographed prints of the disaster by the thousand; his years of hard sledding were over. In 1852 Currier was joined by James Merritt Ives, "a young man who yearned to be an artist but who was a bookkeeper because he had no particular desire to starve." Till 1907 the firm of Currier & Ives kept its existence, though Currier retired in 1880. Ives died...
...appearance in Grand Hotel, Henry Hull (Lulu Belle, Michael & Mary, The Ivory Door) has also given his theatrical reputation a boost. He is the dissolute Baron Von Gaigern whose increasing desperation at his failure to get funds, so that he may be aboard the dancer's train, is terminated by a revolver shot. Actor Hull says he likes the role better than any he has ever played since he started acting in 1911. He was born in Louisville, Ky., is 37 years old, went to Columbia University. He likes to farm, has a wife and two children, has written...
Martin A. O'Mara resigned as president and director of Brockway Motor Truck Corp. At the same time it was announced that the Bureau of Securities, New York State Attorney General's office, was investigating recent attempts to boost the stock's price, sought action against Mr. O'Mara, George C. Van Tuyl Jr., onetime New York State Superintendent of Banks, now a director of The Bank of United States, and David Lamar, so-called "Wolf of Wall Street" (TIME, Aug. 18). Brockway Motor Truck Corp. was one of the stocks identified with insolvent Prince & Whitely (TIME...
WITH clamorous cavortings, Mr. Benjamin De Casseres bursts once again into a display of orgiastic literary criticism. First giving Mr. Mencken a substantial boost into Olympus, he then proceeds to disclose the very thinly covered bones of Mr. George Bernard Shaw with a withering clarity and veracity that is closely skin to genius. Blaring forth his ideas in a prose that is the essence of strength and polish, he never leaves the reader a moment to catch his breath, but rushes him along through a host of coruscating criticism that is as trenchant as it is illogical. But then logic...