Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down the path blazed by New Deal Democrats." Malone advised Scott to "settle down"; Mason said he opposed Eisenhower's program only "where I thought it was wrong." And from his home in Dunkirk. N.Y., old Dan Reed, who lost a slugging match to the President on excess profits taxes in July, said of his relations with Ike, "We are very close friends." Of Scott's grumble, Reed chuckled: "Well. Hughy'll say darn near anything for publicity...
...beyond, in the fiscal year 1955 (which actually begins July 1, 1954). Despite economies of $13.3 billion in the 1954 budget, the Administration expects to run at least $4 billion in the red. On top of that, tax cuts loom ahead. On Jan. 1, as the laws now stand, excess profits taxes expire and personal income taxes drop 11%; a clutch of excise taxes will end April 1. Estimated revenue loss: more than $8 billion a year. If the Administration is going to come anywhere near balancing the budget, it will have to do some drastic economizing...
...enemies insist that his goal is nothing less than a single, giant labor federation, with himself as its boss. Since he succeeded Dan Tobin as Teamster president last year, Beck has kept on the offensive, recruiting and raiding uninhibitedly. Last week he predicted a teamsters' membership of "in excess of 3,000,000" by 1960. Long the No. i union boss on the West Coast, he is building a $3,500,000 headquarters in Washington, an indication that he expects to step onto a broader stage...
...grow on their allotted acreage, and the Government will support the price at 90% of parity. If a farmer grows wheat on more than his allotted acreage, he will have to pay the Government a fine of 45% of parity for all he markets or uses from the excess acres. If more than one-third of the farmers vote no, the price support will drop to 50% of parity...
After twice examining Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac in Yugoslavia, where he is confined by government order to his home village, two American physicians reported that he was "not in any immediate danger" from his blood disease (an excess of red blood cells), thought he "still can live many, many years...