Word: excesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Considered at length the Mellon (25% surtax) bill for tax reduction, with its three alternatives; the Green (compromise Republican) 35% surtax measure, the Frear (insurgent Republican) 50% surtax-excess profits tax measure, the Garner (Democratic) 44% surtax measure...
...issuing of quota certificates by consular officers abroad, so that hereafter immigrants need not be turned back after reaching American shores, on the ground that they are in excess of quota...
...Committee: 1) Those Republicans who prefer the Mellon bill as it stands, with a maximum surtax of 25%; 2) those Republicans-including Chairman Green-who want a maximum surtax of 32% to 35%; 3) the insurgent Republicans-led by Representative Frear-who want even higher surtaxes and, as well, excess profits taxes; 4) the Democrats who favor a maximum surtax...
...Cuban crop has been the real source of the world's sugar ever since the practical destruction of the beet sugar industry of Europe during the War. Last year the drought in Cuba reduced the output and ruined many growers, and there is no large excess of sugar overhanging the markets...
Frank A. Munsey, the great consolidator, added another paper to his history. He bought The Evening Mail (Manhattan) for a sum "in excess of $2,000,000," and consolidated it with one of his other papers, The Evening Telegram...