Word: indirectness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amicable Compromise. Finance Minister Reinhold was raked over many a German editorial coal, early in the week, because the heavy indirect taxes imposed during the year have swelled German tax receipts to and beyond the point at which it is provided in the Dawes Plan that the Allies shall be given a share in the tax surplus. Irate German editors bewailed "this excess of taxation, now to be wasted in reparations payments." Harassed, Finance Minister Reinhold sought Agent Gilbert. Between them they arrived at an amiable compromise whereby a portion of these surplus reparations will be remitted to Germany...
Financial experts deplore the new budget's many inconsistencies and general lack of coherent plan. It represents a political compromise between the Left, which demanded the raising of additional taxes by a "capital levy" (bearing chiefly on the rich); and the Right, which called for the enactment of "indirect taxes" (affecting all classes). As the budget stands, the expenditure estimates of many departments have been scaled so low that it is doubtful if they can actually pull through the year on the sums allowed them...
...American Professional Football League may be welcomed from other viewpoints than those of its proponents. Their undertaking is perhaps in itself nothing more than any other intelligent business enterprise which endeavors to supply a popular commodity to sections of the public hitherto debarred from it. But the indirect influence upon conditions in our colleges and universities is an important consideration. College football has been an academic scandal for the last two decades, absorbing the time and interest of the student body to the detriment of intellectual pursuits, developing an unhealthy spirit of competition and vulgar advertising, and leading in almost...
...hiring stenographers, I have found that the careless reader is invariably the careless speller. One of the tests I have used in hiring stenographers has been to have them read perhaps out of the editorials of the day's newspaper. I find careless reading connotes sloppy expression, indifferent spelling, indirect mental activities...
...successful actions taken by the National Unions and by the C. I. E. in order to obtain reduced rail-road fares and visa fees were, though indirect, nevertheless essential helps to our students...