Word: understand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marry during their first three years of active service. Reason: second lieutenants draw only $125 a month, should keep their minds on the Army. Said Brigadier General Lorenzo Dow Gasser, testifying for the bill: ". . . We propose to exempt the present West Point class that graduates this June. I understand commitments have been made...
...unfortunate," said the Bulletin, "that the accredited representatives of the Unions were embarrassed by outside pressure on their members and ironic that the activities of some members of the teaching staff in urging an intransigeant attitude on the members were, we understand, complained of by the Union representatives...
...Morgenthau: "I don't understand you. You say 'degradation...
...John Jacob Astor, a fat young man with a fat income and no job, was entitled to deduct $5,163 for "business expenses" on his income-tax return was something the Government did not understand. His explanation: "The collection of income is the business conducted by the petitioner . . . and the expenses of such trade or business are proper deductions from the petitioner's income." The Government's answer...
...work," he said. "The appropriation of $725,000,000 recommended by the committee will employ only 1,930,000. In other words, the committee proposes to throw out of employment, in the dead of winter, 1,151,300 men... It is not necessary to draw on the imagination to understand what that mean to the business interests of the country...