Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line up solidly against inflation. Catholics battle birth control. For almost every other economic or social measure there can be found a body of citizens who, through self-interest or principle, will offer organized opposition. But for the Townsend Plan no such body exists. Contemplating a scheme which would alter the whole economic and social structure of the U. S., no individual citizen has yet felt personally & sufficiently aggrieved to organize an anti-Townsend club. Most thinking citizens have ignored the Plan, or dismissed it as too remote or fantastic to be worth worrying about. Congressmen, who know better, have...
...with taxes necessitated by the bond issues of the logo's. Hence the trend of state taxation is to provide relief for property owners. In Ohio and Florida voters have forced reductions in the real estate tax rate. New revenue, therefore, must come from other sources. Most popular alter native nearly everywhere is the graduated income tax. But income taxes fail to raise any worthwhile revenue in states with low per capita wealth. The Inter state Commission on Conflicting Taxation figured that whereas New York raises $5.60 per capita by its income tax, Arkansas raises only 11? per capita...
...equilibrium that was established by the system worked out in the Washington treaties to be continued or is it to be upset? The American Government stands for continuance. ... I have proposed a substantial all-around reduction in naval armaments to be effected in such a way as not to alter the relative strengths or jeopardize the security of the participating nations as established by these treaties. . . . We believe that . . . the system established has been of advantage to all concerned, and that abandonment now of the principles involved would lead to conditions of insecurity, of international suspicion, and of costly competition...
...trance state she underwent a change of voice, manner, posture and her utterances made it appear that she was invaded by the spirit of a deceased Arab who called himself Uvani. Dr. Rhine was not much concerned with whether "Uvani" was in fact an Oriental ghost, or the alter ego of a Schizoid personality, or a simple hallucination. He wanted to know what Mrs. Garrett in her normal state and in her trance could do with his cards. Findings...
...prepared a talk on syphilis. Infantile paralysis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and cancer are diseases which broadcasters frequently discuss over the radio but Columbia Broadcasting drew the line at Dr. Parran's subject. Nonetheless, he appeared at CBS's Manhattan studio to tell the nation about syphilis. Would he alter his prepared text to conform with what the company considered good public taste? Indeed he would not. Thereupon CBS refused him a microphone. Next day Dr. Parran resigned from the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education because its Secretary-Director Levering Tyson had not backed him up. He also...