Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...normal tax of $148,840. Because it retained more than 60% of its earnings, it would also have paid up to the maximum rate of 27% on its undistributed profits, another $120,487.80. Total: $269,327.80. Under the 1938 bill, corporations earning more than $25,000 will pay a flat tax of 19% minus 2½% of the amount it distributed in dividends. If Corporation B retains the same share of its profits, it will pay a total...
...Churchill, who thus might have been expected to snub Herr Henlein last week, actually invited this Hitler stooge to his London flat for a three-hour conference at which was present the Liberal Opposition Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair. This was in the early afternoon, and with much frantic telephoning a late tea party for Herr Henlein was arranged by Laborite Harold Nicolson, M. P. Leftist Nicolson persuaded to take tea with Stooge Henlein three middleweight British Parliamentary figures notable up to now for their last-ditch championship of Anthony Eden at the time he was ousted: Lieut. Commander Reginald Fletcher...
Early in the Great Depression, President Hoover pledged industrialists to maintain wages in spite of falling prices. Since he has assumed the whip, President Roosevelt has continually tried to force wages higher as a prosperity measure. Now, in immediate prospect is an increase to a flat nation-wide minimum of 40 cents an hour together with a 40 hour per week maximum. These measures have arisen out of a native confidence in under-consumption theories of depression. Two administrations have assumed that the path of roses to prosperity lies in boosting wage incomes so that laborers buy more...
Wage legislation is socially desirable but this is not the hour for it. If it must pass, the bill should at least be modified from its uncompromising flat rate. A system of wage differentials for regions and industries, established by wage boards which have made individual investigations, might to some extent mitigate a situation of increased production curtailment and unemployment...
...outdone Bill Stickel cleared the loaded bases for Columbia in the fifth inning of the second game, and in the seventh Bob Stolz for the Lions got a four-baser with one on, after falling flat on the ground in an attempt to hit a previous Ingalls strike...