Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President could pack it with new members favorable to his cause; 2) declaring a moratorium until a Constitutional Amendment could be adopted forbidding the Court to declare Federal laws unconstitutional, declaring it retroactive; 3) paying in gold as demanded and establishing a 60% tax to get back the excess; 4) or simply letting the adverse decision stand and refusing to consent to the Government's being sued for the amounts due. And inflationists proposed simply settling up with the gold claimants by issuing some billions of greenbacks...
...action which was roundly condemned as a moral violation of the Plan's permanent character, Potomac Electric's rate of return was reduced by the Public Service Commission from 7½% to 7% and the company's share of the excess profits pared down...
...automobiles, approximately the total number on the road today. Its principal stockholder once turned down an offer of a billion dollars for the company as a going concern. Since it was founded in 1903 with $28,000 of paid-in capital, it has grossed a few hundred millions in excess of $11,000,000,000, retained as net gain nearly $800,000,000. No man in all history has made so much money so quickly or so cleanly as Henry Ford...
...public liked it and the headlines grew. In Congress Senators Nye and Vandenberg proposed an investigation, got nowhere. Then with one eye cocked on the peace clubs about the land, Senator Nye offered an amendment to the 1934 Revenue Act placing a tax of 95¢ on all incomes in excess of $10.000, effective the day the U. S. next declares...
...profits be taken out of war. A War Policies Commission headed by Republican Secretary of War Hurley drafted such a plan (TIME, May 25, 1931). It called for freezing prices during war and establishing taxes that would take 95% of any man's or corporation's war profits in excess of his average for the previous three years. It also called for drafting all man power?which meant workers at home as well as fighters at the front. To this last provision Labor bitterly objected. When the plan went to Congress the House struck out the drafting of man power...