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Word: investive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poet who will now "invest it and be substantial." (P. 29.) A public man whose enthusiasm is greater than his means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Dec. 10, 1923 | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

...Butler Yeats, Irish poet: "On being notified that the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature ( ?7,500) had been awarded to me, I was reported to have said: 'If it is small, we (my wife and I) will spend it and be rich. If it is large, we will invest it and be sub-stantial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Dec. 10, 1923 | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

...been furnished by Secretary Mellon in answer to the argument of the radicals who say that by lowering the surtaxes 23,000 millionaires will be relieved of taxes that they ought to bear. Mr Mellon's figures show how high surtaxes drive people with large incomes to invest their capital in tax-exempt securities and so actually reduce the income tax revenue from large incomes. The figures are for incomes over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mathematics | 11/26/1923 | See Source »

...Taxpayers subject to the higher rates cannot afford, for example, to invest in American railroads or industries or embark upon new enterprises in the face of taxes that wiill take 50% or more of any return, that may be realized. These taxpayers are withdrawing their capital from productive business and investing it instead in tax-exempt securities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Mr. Mellon Proposes | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

Plans are under way for a National Republican Club in Washington-a large modern building around 14th and K Streets, or thereabouts. It is planned to invest several million dollars, raised chiefly by the disposition of thousands of five-dollar nonresident memberships among Republicans all over the country. It would provide accommodations for sleeping, eating, banqueting, exercising, convening. It would have apartments for Republican officeholders in the Capital, and a special section of the building would be set aside for female Republicans. The undertaking of the project is said to be imminent. Harry M. Daugherty, Edward F. Colladay (Republican National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Oct. 29, 1923 | 10/29/1923 | See Source »

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