Word: debts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is Secretary of the Treasury Mellon's general policy of using the surplus to help retire the national debt...
...common sense requires that we do not act precipitately. . . . The necessity that we do not commit our Government to an unsound fiscal policy for the future should not prevent the Government treating its taxpayers fairly in any particular year in which Government revenues are overabundant. I believe in debt reduction along the program settled after the War, but I do not believe in the payment of a public debt to the undue burdening of productive industry...
...balance should be maintained between debt reductions and tax reductions which is fair to all interests in our country. We know now we shall have a considerable surplus in the fiscal year 1927 ending next June. The President has suggested a credit on taxes yet to be paid during this fiscal year, and I see no reason why the greater part of the expected surplus for 1927 might not be left in the pockets of the people of the country by a credit upon their income taxes. There is not time to pass legislation to cover...
...languished throughout the War; for he was captured amid the first skirmishes of the Legionnaires which he had raised in an effort to free Poland. As he sat last week on his "grand old mare" 30,000 Polish soldiers paraded in review before him. Poles, mindful of their debt to the always temperamental and often foolhardy Marshal, cheered him. From Ostrolenka, near Warsaw, there came an old, tottering Jew who presented Dictator Pilsudski with a handsome bouquet and declared that only since the rise of the Dictator have his people received justice in Poland...
...readers that here is presented only one side of an international question with very grave omissions of fact, that no valid judgment on the Great War will be pronounced until another generation, and finally that much of Mr. Bausman's argument has very little to do with the debt question, which is even more an economic subject than a legal one, but very much to do with fear and dislike of England. When an author can confidently anticipate the verdict of history in conferring upon four such dissimilar figrues as Hearst, Reed, Borah, and Coolidge, the rank of "statesmen...