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...mesdames J. H. Adamson, R. L. Agassiz, Charles Almy, P. deM, Bailey, S. H. Batchelder, W. C. Bayhes, J. C. Bayley, Everett Bradley F. M. Bud, Godfrey Cabot, David Cheever, Algernon Coolidge, Juiian Coolidge, C. P. Curtis, G. S. Curtis, H. T. Cutler, Bradford Dorr, J. D. M. Ford, Q. M. Fowle, K. Francke, Langdon Frothingham, G. P. Gardiner, P. W. Gentleman, J. H. Gifford, E. P. Goodnow, L. C. Graton, Frederick Haldsworth, G. W. Harrington, H. M. Houser, C. E. lndus...
...Refunds. Large corporations pay large income taxes, sometimes get large refunds back from the government. According to Representative John N. Garner (Dem.) of Texas, the U. S. Treasury has paid $2,000,000,000 in refunds and secret credits to taxpayers, during Andrew W. Mellon's term as Secretary of the Treasury. Congressman Garner called the Treasury Secretary a "Santa Claus" to large corporations, objected particularly to refunds made to the U. S. Aluminum Co., controlled by Mellon interests. Claiming that Aluminum Co. refunds totalled $1,267,426, Congressman Garner said: "Mr. Mellon, this grand Secretary that you hear...
...slaves: "All captains come to river tell me you king and you big mans stop we trade, and s'pose dat true, what we do? ... We law is, s'pose some of we child go bad and we no can sell 'em, we father must kill dem own child. And s'pose trade be done, we must kill too much child same...
...might have been either weeping or sleeping, was labeled "Farm Vote." The departing gallant wore a haughty "G. O. P." label. The dubious gallant bore an unmistakable resemblance to Nominee Smith, and to make certainty certain, Cartoonist Homer Speltz of the Gopher Prairie, Wha.,* Clarion had labeled the figure "Dem...
Political commentators in the U. S., notably the late Frank I. Cobb of the Dem ocratic New York World, have often urged responsible Cabinet Government for this country. In England, Cabinet executives are not only permitted, but are required by custom to go before Parliament to explain and defend bills proposed by the party in power. In the U. S., political parties can, and regularly do, evade responsibility by shifting it, as may be convenient, from executive to legislative or vice versa...