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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...points and voted to cut the people's taxes by $289,735,000. The first alteration, reducing tax revenues some 24 millions, aimed to benefit corporations with incomes of $15,000 or less. Such corporations constitute about 70% of all U. S. taxpaying corporations. Leaving the tax on larger corporate incomes fixed at 11½%, the amendment graded small corporate incomes taxes as follows: 5% on $7,000 or less, 7% from $7,000 to $12,000, 9% from $12,000 to $15,000. John Nance Garner, Texas Democrat, was the author of this alteration. He and his partisans...
...Squadron leaders, of similar design but larger, more heavily armed than line destroyers...
...from 17 to 22; at Annapolis, 20 is the maximum entrance age. At West Point a man who has played football at another university may continue to play; at the Navy three years of collegiate football is the limit for any player. Though the Annapolis enrollment is 50% larger than West Point the Army has the advantage, has beaten Annapolis with more than fair frequency in recent years...
...Chicago crumbled slowly; in 1886, the year after Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed went back to become a Doctor of Divinity, it became extinct. This made Dr. Goodspeed sad and thoughtful; he saw the need for a successor to his small and defunct alma mater, a successor which should be larger, intellectually more potent, better endowed, nonsectarian. He therefore went to John Davison Rockefeller, in 1889 already a famed financier, and explained to him why Chicago needed a university, why such a university deserved strong financial support. After listening to Dr. Goodspeed, Mr. Rockefeller said that he would contribute...
...country to have the farmer raise food to supply the domestic manufacturer than the foreign manufacturer. In one case our country would have only the farmer; in the other it would have the farmer and the manufacturer. Assuming that Europe would have more money if it sold us larger amounts of merchandise, it is not certain it would consume more food, or, if it did, that its purchases would be made in this country. Undoubtedly it would resort to the cheapest market, which is by no means ours. The largest and best and most profitable market for the farmer...