Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taxpaying corporations. Leaving the tax on larger corporate incomes fixed at 11½%, the amendment graded small corporate incomes taxes as follows: 5% on $7,000 or less, 7% from $7,000 to $12,000, 9% from $12,000 to $15,000. John Nance Garner, Texas Democrat, was the author of this alteration. He and his partisans were joined by 33 Republicans, mostly from the Northwest, in the 212-to-182 vote that put it through...
...pajamas, night-shirts, bathrobes and galluses, without chairs enought to go around,† the sleepy statesmen preferred charges against Governor Johnston, including incompetency, conspiracy to defraud, improper appointments, illegal use of state funds. They also framed charges to impeach Chief Justice Frederick P. Branson of the State Supreme Court, author of the decision declaring them a nonlegal gathering...
Died. Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed, 85, educator, author; in Chicago...
Geniuses FIGHTERS OF FATE-J. Arthur Myers-Williams & Wilkins ($3). Author Myers has selected 24 distinguished hosts to the bacillus of tuberculosis, living and dead, and retold the story of their lives, in detail where their struggle with the disease is concerned. Paganini is first. Then comes Schiller. Then Bichat. A gloomy procession which marched (bravely and blindly) before the day of Koch and his discovery, before modern science had tamed the scourge. Gradually the light dawns. The last fighter depicted is Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, fruitful and saved. The author disbelieves in the theory that tuberculosis produces...
Possibly the Advocate author chose to view all sides of the question. In so doing, however, he has defeated his own ends: perusal of the article leads one to object to the "Professional Tutor' (why so called? Tutors in Harvard College are equally professional and, in many cases, quite as efficient) solely on one ground--his rates are exorhitant. His services are acknowledged to be of great value and often essential; his prices alone mark him as a Pariah...