Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...municipal bond to the taxpayer in the highest surtax class. There is every inducement and ample opportunity to the taxpayer in the higher surtax class to transfer his investment funds from railroad and industrial securities to state and municipal bonds. The tax-exempt security is the occasion for the evil, but the high surtax is the moving cause...
...state and municipal bonds now outstanding. Awaiting their retirement will postpone the date of complete solution. Only reduction by Act of Congress of the surtax rates to a level at which the inducement to invest in tax-exempt securities becomes negligible will destroy immediately and completely the tax-exempt evil, and reduction is logically the net step in the lightening of the tax burden imposed upon the country...
With this evil distraction ever-present how can the eager student obtain the seclusion essential to great, solitary minds? To test out my theory, I went to the Copley Plaza this evening where Boston's social life centres in all its worst aspects. I had determined to show my complete unconsciousness of all that stupidity of convention which these people affect. I wore my usual quiet air of assurance and my customary yellow flannel shirt (I should have preferred my other one,--which is more appropriately black,--but that I left at the Comrades' headquarters in New York) which...
...From time to time during these years word has reached us that unscrupulous persons pretending to represent our publication were collecting large sums of money from numerous influential people, and so menacing has this evil become that we have discontinued the publication of an annual special number...
...routine with no spark of inquiry enlivening a high-sided rut; preachers and educators who discard their youthful enthusiasm and experimentation for dogma; engineers who reject commonsense in favor of half understood formulae; doctors who rely on the heroic remedies of former ages--such men may do no personal evil, but their influence in preventing progress, their reaction against change, due to inertia alone, is tremendous...