Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starts writing "poisoned pap" that sells well. He even, like Author Caldwell, writes a novel ("with Sex aplenty") about "international bankers" who "cunningly and sedulously plotted wars for their own profit. This was what the American people wanted ... a scapegoat for their fear. . . . Sound and fury, rage and excess, anger and despair, defeated dreams, filled every page of the novel [and] Frank was sometimes faintly embarrassed by the wealth of adjectives. . . ." This is an embarrassment that Author Caldwell never seems to feel...
There was nothing else so exciting in Abbott's Santa Claus pack. The rest of the budget contained nothing of note but the promise that the excess profits tax would end Dec. 31. All the excise and nuisance taxes were still there. Cigarets-not even figured in the cost of living-were still taxed at 21?: a pack, about $75 a year for the average smoker. But the immense popularity of income-tax cuts in every bracket was enough to give the Liberals a new hero...
Moral Suasion. New price controls were impractical now, he said. So were excess profits taxes. So were buyers' strikes. In answer to a question, he agreed that his only weapon was "moral suasion...
...made it clear that he would veto any bill that cut taxes at the expense of sound economy or that failed to reduce the national debt. "When a man is earning good wages ... he is wise if he uses his excess income to pay off his debts. He would be shortsighted if he cut his income just because he was not spending it all at the moment...
...Lord Horder, consulting physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, who offered the most ambitious description of a doctor's mission. Medicine, said he, must write the prescription for a healthy state,* and "guide the politicians. ... It is the doctor's duty to protect the worker against excess fatigue, against dullness and against the various hazards of his job. . . . The doctor's work in the future will be more and more educational and less and less curative. . . . He will spend his time keeping the fit fit rather than trying to make the unfit fit." Famed Dr. Henry...