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...pleasure and an honor to the fraternity to present to you this gavel. It is not intrinsically a treasure nor is it a battle axe to rule the unruly. Rather, it is a symbol of the devotion, respect and affection of Dekes throughout the United States for a great Deke and gallant gentleman who is assuming the high office of Speaker of the House of Representatives. It is an expression of our confidence in the worthiness with which the office of Speaker will be administered in the 69th Congress, and lets you know that D. K. E.* backs...
...waters are falling and our spirits are rising . . . [but] I should have thought that those . . . whose one unfailing remedy is the strike or lockout . . . would have learned more from the Great War. . . . In home affairs the speeches of too many leaders smack of the sword and battle axe. . . . Differences there must be . . . but I have yet to be convinced that they are not capable of resolution by reason and without resort to force...
Today the bulldog again wears an engaging grin that displays teeth as well as cheerfulness, and John Harvard dispenses hospitality with one hand while he meditatively sharpens his pioneer's axe with the other. This is the time when indifference takes its annual vacation, for the tradition of fifty years f mutual regard and respect is entering on its second half century...
...eternally right" in saying that lower surtaxes would yield more revenue. He wanted much lower inheritance taxes?say, 15% instead of 40% maximum?but did not think they should be abolished. He wanted a board created to clear up ancient tax cases from 1916 and 1917 "with an axe if need be." He wanted salaries of $10,000 a year and a long term of office for officials who had to make important tax case decisions?to dignify their office. He suggested a short cut: that, in place of the multitude of present exemptions, taxes be on gross income with...
...described: "With an ear-to-ear grin on his face and his hands overflowing with dollars milked from the rate of exchange, he scours the forest of Creuse and Correze, demolishing the beautiful chestnut trees. The forests of several French provinces are soon to fall under his axe...