Word: formality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were retained: Normal taxes 2% to $4,000; 4% to $8,000; 6% above $8,000; surtaxes beginning at 1% at $10,000 and proceeding to 40% at $500,000 and more. These rates were very close to the Longworth rates (House, Republican) and the decision was largely a formal one in order to give the Democrats credit for a finger...
...went to his death upholding his opinions. It is the story of a soft martyr, who never actually recanted, but tried to mollify his persecutors by concessions. The manner of this compromise was well described by Oswald Garrison Villard in his Some Newspapers and Newspapermen*. The Star adopted the formal tactics of its commercial competitors?screaming headlines, comic strips, subscription premiums. By these methods its business managers tried to gain circulation, and they got perhaps 60,000?no mean feat. But it went further in its compromises; it toned down the vigor of its editorials. It was no longer...
...first ball to be given in many years. Dancing was strictly a la Victorienne, King George and Queen Mary having displayed their antipathy for modern dancing by banning the fox trot and other neo-terpsichorean frills. The four Sovereigns opened the ball by leading in the formal quadrille d'honneur which has opened royal balls since the days of George III. The remainder of the evening was then filled with waltzes, polkas and the like. According to official report there was no political significance attached to the visit. Both King Ferdinand and Queen Marie especially the latter, are popular...
This is a most unusual procedure. To ask other nations to sign the Lodge Treaty with these articles attached would be virtually equivalent to asking them to acknowledge that the United States is a specially privileged nation. It would require every country joining the Lodge Court to acknowledge formally the Monroe Doctrine. Most nations are content to accept the Monroe Doctrine in practice, but many would object violently to initial it as a sign of their formal approval. Other nations would object similarly to "O. K.'ing" our immigration policy, whatever it may finally turn...
...procedure of the convention tomorrow night will include formal organization, the keynote speech, the presentation of candidates for the Democratic presidential nominee, the report of the Committee on Platform and Resolutions, and three or four ballots. On Wednesday evening the platform will be more fully discussed and voted upon, and the candidates balloted on until a two-thirds majority is obtained...