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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRAISES RECORD OF HARDING, COOLIDGE | 4/30/1924 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golf Captain | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGO-SLAVIA: Pro-Hungary? | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

...Careless but not dishonest" is the verdict of Harvard Square banker's on the financial practices of members of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Careless Not Dishonest" say Square Bankers of Harvard's Money Ways; Overdrafts Common; Forgery the Exception | 1/17/1924 | See Source »

Mile. Berthon is described by the Radicals as a sweet and pretty 20-year-old girl. In the Act of Accusation she was called "a violent, lazy, untidy girl, with dissolute morals and dishonest." To the Court she said: "I regret nothing. My life shall pay for my act." She was reported, however, to have said that she regretted not having killed M. Daudet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Regrets | 12/31/1923 | See Source »

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