Word: dozens
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...share of the Capone "mob's" profits for the years 1925-27. With complete candor he explained that the money had been come by through all sorts of racketeering. He was pained and surprised that the Government taxed such incomes. Said he: "I talked with a half a dozen attorneys and they didn't know any more than I did. In 1926 the Circuit Court of Appeals held that income from illicit sources could not be taxed. The next year the Supreme Court ruled differently. I have never committed a crime of moral turpitude. I have never done...
...Libertador, South America's George Washington, was 100 years dead last week. Officials of a dozen nations united to do him honor. Messages were sent, editorials published, statues unveiled and holidays declared. Only the fact that three of the six nations which he founded have suffered either revolution or political insurrections in the past year prevented El Libertador's centenary from being even more festive...
...Shipstead), $30,000,000 free wheat distribution by Federal Farm Board (Kansas' Capper), $50,000,000 increased War Veterans pension (Alabama's Black), $150,000,000 public works (Illinois' Glenn), $10,000.000 Mediterranean fruit fly relief (Florida's Trammel), $100,000,000 free jobless relief (Massachusetts' Walsh). A half dozen measures have been introduced in the House providing for $4,000,000,000 to cash soldier bonus certificates...
...Pittsfield, Mass, last week ten men gathered around a dozen pint bottles for a drinking bout. Seven died. Three went blind. Cause: wood alcohol used by the U. S. Treasury Department as an industrial denaturant...
...have before me a recent issue of a New-York newspaper. Its first three pages are largely devoted to signals of distress. More than a dozen headlines call attention to "business depression." "jobless," "the homeless...