Word: exemption
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British delegation introduced a motion to exempt from the consideration of the Conference warships, submarines, airships, airplanes and tanks, all of which, on account of their size, cannot be sold secretly and therefore can be controlled by a system of licenses. Referred to committee...
...exempt real estate...
...corresponding increase in fellowships and scholarships granted by the University is to some extent an extenuating circumstance. It arranges matters so that the brilliant student at least is exempt from the common blight. It does not, however, reach the large number of men who plan to put themselves through college and who will be unable to devote their full time and energy to their scholastic work. These men cannot keep their grades up to the high standard necessary to obtain financial recognition from the University, because much of their time is occupied in earning enough money to keep them...
...proposed Amendment is purely an Enabling Act and therefore does not exempt farm work and domestic duties. These ex- emptions properly belong in the act passed under the Amendment. Ex- cept for work in the sugar-beet fields, and in gardening, children do not suffer from these duties and the idea that they would be prohibited is ridiculous...
...Federal taxes have been reduced about a billion dollars, and should continue to decrease in the future by the steady retirements of Liberty Bonds from European debt payments. State and local taxation, however, presents a very different case. Lavish borrowing by the issuance of tax-exempt bonds has been the order of the day ever since the armistice. In 1919, state and local governments in this country borrowed $691,000,000; by 1923, they were borrowing $1,063,000,000 and during the first eleven months of this year they have established a new high record...