Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that all income-tax rates should be reduced, but that a relatively greater percentage reduction in tax should be made in the middle and upper brackets, where extremely high rates are seriously interfering with the incentive to take risks and with the supply and mobility of investment funds." On Capitol Hill, from the day Congress reconvenes next month, Democrats will push for an increase in the personal exemption from $600 to $700. But President Eisenhower's budget message is not likely to contain any specific recommendation for a tax cut. Administration policy, hammered out and approved last week...
...spring of 1934, Lawyer Collins submitted himself once more to the voters of Leon County ("I hated to quit after being beaten"), and won election to the state House of Representatives. He put in six hard-working years in the House and twelve in the Senate. Twice the state capitol press corps voted him the most valuable legislator...
...Constitutional. In that spirit, Collins pitched into the job of running the government of a state in transition. He gets up at 7 o'clock, likes to have some of his staff meet him at his home for an hour's work. "Once we get to the capitol," he says, "it's hard to get together." Collins describes himself as "constitutionally incapable of working by the clock...
...they are not. then the people will go elsewhere for them. If the city-hall door is slammed in their faces, they will go to the state capitol. If they get nothing there, they turn to Washington...
When Travis decided to record some coal miners' songs in 1947, there were hardly any to be found, so he wrote some-including Sixteen Tons. It was recorded for Capitol recently by deep-voiced Tennessee Ernie Ford, and leaped to the top of the nation's bestseller lists as fast as any record ever made. It has a driving beat, like the cars clanking to and from the underground yard, and its words carry a kind of homey cynicism: You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt...