Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last stroke of the campaign was struck by the Republicans. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon ordered that the gross amounts of tax returns by individuals and corporations should be made public. The law which made this possible was passed over the Administration's protest by Democrats and insurgents. A howl of rage went up from business men everywhere. Perhaps Secretary Mellon meant to suggest by his gesture: "You may expect more of this if you support our opponents...
...continued the war against Chang, but detached a large part of his army which marched against Peking to rid the world of "traitor Feng." Feng, in control of Peking, said that he had acted only to stop a fratricidal war and that Wu had been dismissed because of incompetence, gross civil and military misuse of his powers. He declared that he would continue the war against Chang if the latter did not heed the President's order to cease hostilities. (This he appeared to have done...
...Evening Post (Republican) held consistently against publishing the lists, "not only because such publication is against the law but because it is a gross violation of the rights of the individual which we opposed when the law was passed by the Democratic-Radical-Renegade coalition in Congress last spring...
...ones. Men known to be very wealthy appeared in the relatively small returns, while unknown names stood opposite large assessments. Accordingly, the judgment of the financial centre on the whole episode was in the main that the returns published had borne out what it had claimed right along were gross discriminations and irregularities in the income-tax law itself. The individuals shrewd enough to have put their fortune into tax-exempt securities, or to have diverted their income into increased corporate surpluses or appreciated land values, escaped lightly. The blunderers who accepted large cash profits directly paid through the nose...
...Toulmin '25, R. H. Booth Jr. '27, C. P. Clifford '27, H. G. Phelps '27, D. G. Casto '26, G. McN. Gates '27; first basemen, R. H. Field '26, W. P. Ellison '27; second basemen, Philip Keene '25, B. M. Rice '25; shortstops, Willard Howard '27, C. S. Gross '27, J. B. Dacey '26; third basemen, H. E. Slayton Jr. '26, C. O. Erickson '27, Butler Cox 27; outfielders, C. L. Todd Jr. '26, M. F. Amsden '25, G. W. Burgess '25, R. T. Flood '27, J. B. Durant...