Word: dishonestly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bitter. Senator Norris, Republican insurgent declared : "I can see no reason why income tax returns should not be made public the same as other public records. The honest man will make the proper returns anyhow, so will have no objections to having his returns scanned. It will prevent the dishonest man from making false returns, thereby impelling honest returns and increasing the revenues." To this Secretary Mellon rejoined: "With publicity of returns, however, the temptation to conceal income would be much greater, and I venture to say that with such a provision in the law, millions of dollars of income...
...publishers) adopt some schedule rates for such political advertising and would decline to publish the appeal of the liar and charlatan. Close your columns to the claptrap and buncombe of the politicians. Scorn our words when you know that we are uttering falsehoods, just as you scorn the dishonest advertiser...
...Party in connection with taxes, which have so helped to pay this, is that we believe in the principle of taxing people in accordance with their ability to pay. So we fix a rate of maximum productivity and minimum disturbance. It is really an issue of honest taxation against dishonest taxation. Our opponents play up a lot to the poor and downcast and against the rich, but they really leave the door wide open to let the rich man through. Our plan of taxation is not so much a question of who pays the taxes or whether business will...
...approved the steel shaft for all championship tournaments. The steel shaft actually affords no advantage over the hickory; but the rapid growth of the popularity of golf was said to have forced some dishonest manufacturers to use unseasoned hickory; and the Association, after exhaustive tests, decided to approve the steel shafts, recommended by its Implement and Ball Committee, in order to eliminate the necessity of buying from unscrupulous dealers...
...intended to go to Belgrade, with the primary object of frustrating the Fiume agreement, not only because Croatia needs Fiume, but also because we have proof that the whole agreement was dishonest...