Word: excesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college students can cooperate with progressive and labor leaders in their continuity to carry on the movement for the formation of a party which will unite on a program of fundamental economic and political reform, including the nationalization and democratic management of public utilities and natural resources, taxation of excess profits and inheritances, government aid to farmers, opposition to war and imperialism, abolition of government injunctions in labor disputes, guarantee of civil liberties, and other measures which will pave the way for a government based on true political and industrial equality, social justice and world peace...
...reveals geniality, kindness, and humor; but his inability to trifle with the truth, his scorn of insincerity and affectation, and his courageous frankness of utterance sometimes frighten the timid. His spoken and written style is a faithful expression of his character. It is a style without applied ornament, without excess of kind, the utterance of a just and valiant man. Though strong-willed and self-assured, he sought to make his policies prevail not by the exercise of autocratic power, but by persuasion. Yet he never flattered, never played politics...
...Congress, while settling nothing, has stirred up other taxes. The attempt to revive the excess profits tax proved short-lived, yet caused gooseflesh among many corporations and investors. However, a movement is underway to increase federal inheritance taxes regardless of those already laid by the various states...
...undistributed profits, 170-51. ¶ To levy an excess profits...
...Good general health, cleanliness, suitable work and exercise, fresh air and healthy surroundings, abundant fresh and well adapted food not taken to excess, a healthy, happy mind not oppressed by care or unnecessary anxiety, are precisely the forces in the presence of which leprosy cannot live...