Word: sentimentality
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...refineries) than state governments can collect a similar tax (by watching every filling station and patrol ling borders for gas bootleggers). And the Federal Government can better collect income taxes because wealthy men cannot move out of a district where the local rate is high. Hence there was considerable sentiment that the Federal Government should collect such taxes, and refund at least part to the states, just as some states collect income taxes and refund part to local governments. Yet state tax officials are inclined to oppose such a scheme be cause it would give the Federal Government still more...
...anniversary of the day when one Edward Henty landed a stake of cattle, poultry and ploughs in what is now Victoria. Since then Victoria has become the most thickly populated corner (1,818,080) of a Commonwealth that Britain wants to bind to herself by every possible tie of sentiment and advantage. Last week Gloucester finished a fine two-month job of binding, by sending off the first plane on the new Australia-London mail service. Aboard the plane were Gloucester's own Christmas cards to family and friends, due to reach London the day before Christmas...
...much of the current upward surge is due to the Government's truce with Business no man can say. Nevertheless, Dun & Bradstreet last week found the state of trade and sentiment so strong that they thought it foreshadowed a business revival "without parallel in modern commercial history for the abruptness of its rise and the intensity of its pursuance...
Although it lacks the high-powered sentiment that made Little Women one of the box-office hits of 1933, Anne of Green Gables would probably have been able to impress itself on the public without the aid of banal publicity tricks like the one whereby Dawn O'Day, the obscure actress who plays the lead, got a Los Angeles court to change her name to that of the heroine in the picture because "Anne Shirley has always been my favorite fiction character...
...sure that I represent practically the unanimous sentiment of former Harvard players that the traditions, spirit, and objectives of Harvard football would be best served and perpetuated if former football players had at least some voice in controlling the future destiny of Harvard football such as they have at Yale, Princeton Dartmouth, and other college's and universities. Hamilton Fish...