Word: excesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Excess of receipts...
...presented in detail in a statement by the Secretary of the Treasury, which has my unqualified approval. I specially commend a decrease on earned incomes and further abolition of admission, message and nuisance taxes. . . . Being opposed to war taxes in time of peace, I am not in favor of excess profits taxes. . . . For seven years the people have borne with uncomplaining courage the tremendous burden of national and local taxation. . . . Of all services which the Congress can render to the country, I have no hesitation in declaring this one to be paramount...
...Excess of receipts...
...Excess of receipts...
...college President can stand by and allow his students to accustom themselves to excess, but what action can be take? At Princeton, Harvard and Yale, where drinking has perhaps declined, drunkenness has apparently increased. Yet what drinking is done is done under cover. At Harvard the authorities bestir themselves to action invariably expulsion when an undergraduate awakens in the morning to find his name in the papers. The test is avoidance of publicity...