Word: needed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...today! Revenues have fallen off. Crimes have multiplied. We are under the reign of the bludgeon and of force. The very church, its bishops and ministers, cheer all sorts of pain and shootings; it applauds force. Have we lost the right of conscience? Are we slaves? We need emancipation ! . . . The Lord could have destroyed all alcohol and made men automatic creatures if he wished. Did He do it? No! He wanted...
...First Duke with his articles of incorporation. As Duke of Norfolk he is the owner of about 50,000 acres of land, some of it in London, all of it valuable. As an individual landowner he must pay taxes on all of this with only a small deduction for needed repairs to tenants' land. By forming himself into a regularly constituted corporation with an official board of directors, he need only pay income tax on dividends paid, in other words on his net income...
...polite Japanese conversation one or more of the three classic epigrams bobs up whenever there is need to deal with stubbornness of any kind. The epigrams were originally coined to describe three great Japanese generals, the first a violent and impetuous general; the second, persuasive and adroit; the third, cautious and patient-and all three successful in their campaigns...
Frenchman Mauny also took occasion to say: "The masses, however, do not seem to have too much need for art?in their old forms, at any rate. Perhaps the rhythm of their life is too brutal. Perhaps the American woman, a perfect living masterpiece, dispenses all the beauty needed for the country...
...long as the Germans control great chemical institutions in which the world of tomorrow is being formed, they can sit back and smile at such things as the London Naval Conference, for if Germany has chemical control of the world . . . she need fear no one. . . . It is because of all this . . . that the American people have a right to know of any such operation as that accomplished here in New York in the financing of a subsidiary of the German chemical cartel...