Word: imposters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year used 1,500,000,000 lb. of fats, of which two-thirds came from beyond the seas. At present prices the 3? tax amounts on the average to a 100% ad valorem levy. All soap makers use some imported fats, and they bluntly declare that the new impost will add 25% to the price of a cake of soap...
...young Densmore Shute, new British Open golf champion: three course records in three days; at Kingussie (64), Pitpochry (65), Inverness (64). ¶ Mrs. Dodge Sloane's Caesar's Ghost, shrewdly ridden by Jockey Dominick Bellizzi: the Saratoga Handicap in which Equipoise, favorite despite being assigned a weight impost of 142 lb., was scratched. ¶ William Miller, famed sculler of the Pennsylvania Athletic Club: his fourth U. S. singles championship in a row (a record); by one length over his clubmate, Al Vogt, in the challenge round of the National Association of Oarsmen's regatta; at Chicago...
...taxes on everybody. Any wealthy man who agitated for a sales tax was suspected of trying to wriggle out of income taxes. Chief sponsor for the current Sales Tax was a wealthy capitalist, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose papers attempted to convince their poor plain readers that such an impost was good for them. Mr. Hearst sent a congressional junket to Canada to study the 4% Sales Tax there (TIME, Nov. 30). The idea was put before the Ways & Means Committee by his spokesmen when it was drafting the revenue bill with advice from an imported Canadian expert (TIME, March...
...mangle it almost beyond recognition. Leaders of the revolt were insurgent Republican LaGuardia of New York and Democrat Doughton of North Carolina. Arraying mass against class, they argued that the sales tax raising $595,000,000 of the bill's $1,096,000,000 was an unfair impost upon poor people, that wealth should be conscripted to balance the budget...