Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that part of an in dividual's earned income which is credited with a 25% 4,500,000 Increasing the 75-cent exemption on admission tickets to $3 15,000,000 Increasing the $10 exemption on club dues to $25 1,000,000 Repeal of the cereal bever age tax 185,000 Reduction of the wine tax. . 1,000,000 Repealing the tax on foreign-built yachts 10,000 Reducing the $6 tax on retail druggists who sell narcotics, to $3. 150,000 Total reductions $225,295,000 INCREASES Withholding at source taxes due from nonresident stockholders...
Three and one-half years ago, 1,530,000 men and women voted for a middle-aged widow named Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp and elected her as New York State's first female Secretary of State. Last week, twelve New Yorkers, sitting on a jury, voted to send Mrs. Knapp to jail for grand larceny in office. During the taking of New York's 1925 census, Mrs. Knapp put her stepdaughter's name on the payroll, then received the stepdaughter's checks herself, forged the endorsements, spent the money on clothes. On the witness stand...
...been on language probation: knows nothing cannot read French at all. When asked about German he replied, "Good God, that was four years age. Of course I remember nothing...
...Treasury Department. It is in the grand manner intellectually not to worry, not to cross bridges before rivers are reached. This Andrew Mellon never does. To his ability to put off until tomorrow that which is not today's concern, his intimates attribute his unimpaired vigor at an age when most of his business contemporaries are dead or retired after lives which in few cases approached his for fullness or success. "There's luck in leisure," he said last autumn when newsgatherers importuned him for a political utterance. As a political sidestep, it was a neat phrase...
President-Elect Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen (TIME, May 21) increased the general discontent by announcing that after his inauguration, next October, he will put into effect a "middle-age pension" law designed to permit toilers to retire at the approximate age of 45. This Utopian piece of legislation has actually been on the statute books since the last Presidency of Dr. Irigoyen (1916-22) but has never come into effect, due to the opposition of President de Alvear...