Word: deductionism
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"Your subcommittee debated at length the advisability of limiting the amount of the deduction allowed to a corporation on account of salary or other compensation received by any officer of the corporation. The numerous examples of excessive officers' salaries brought to light during the past year were not over-looked...
Instead of using this ordinary paraphernalia "Ten-Minute Alibi" returns to the school of pure deduction, which depends for its effect on the cleverness of the criminal in accomplishing his dirty work, and upon the narrow escapes which he has in evading justice. Unfortunately, in "Ten-Minute Alibi" the criminal...
¶Income taxes paid to foreign countries to be only 50% deductible from similar taxes due the U. S., instead of allowing full deduction as formerly.
But no dealer may allow a customer the full price listed in the guide. He must deduct a charge for handling and reconditioning, ranging from 5% to 15% depending upon the age of the car. The official guide price of a Ford cabriolet, 1930 model, in the New York area...
MURDER OF A BANKER-J. S. Fletcher- Knopf ($2). Deduction and chase by Chancy and Camberwell. in London.