Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March imposed: 1) 16% levies on all corporation profits, a 4% surtax on profits undistributed in dividends; 2) levies on capital gains by taxing all of such gains only when made by the sale of assets held less than 13 months, 40% of gains made by selling assets held longer than five years. The Revenue Bill passed by the Senate last month called for: 1) a flat 18% on all corporate profits; 2) further modification of capital gains taxes by lowering not the amount of taxable gains but the tax rate on capital gains-from a maximum...
Most Pennsylvanians were astounded, not only by the charges, but by the hint that their once wealthy Governor had managed to do away with all of his sugar millions. For some time, however, the informed rich have been aware that Mr. Earle is no longer able to pony up such party funds as the $35,000 he gave the Democrats in 1932 and the $140,000 he put up for his own campaign in 1934. But until last week few suspected that their Sugar Boy turned Laborcrat was unable to repay a paltry $6,000, even though the continued existence...
...integral part of its teaching. Praise for this latest reform should be divided between P.B.H., President Conant, Dean Leighton, and other officials, all of whom contributed to its enactment. No more will the service, which eighty-four tutors, instructors, and proctors were supposed to render, be gratuitous; no longer can charges of incompetence be based on lack of time. Now the head and tail of a worm that would spoil any theoretical apple have been destroyed. By no means, however, is the problem completely solved. Those who think it possible at one crack are absurd, and those who feel that...
...that when Mr. Nash comes up for re-election as county Democratic chairman next week, he may be defeated; and that whether he is defeated or not, the Kelly-Nash machine-biggest and most powerful municipal political organization in the land since the defeat of Tammany-was definitely no longer anything of the sort...
Another move was an Iranian hint that His Britannic Majesty's naval forces in the Persian Gulf were no longer welcome to make their base in Iranian waters. Result: The British Naval Base was moved across the Gulf to the oil-laden Bahrein Islands, territory of more tractable, independent H. H. Sheik Sir Hamad bin 'Isa al Khalifa, leaving His Britannic Majesty's diplomatic agent for the Persian Gulf uncomfortably high & dry in.' Bushire's British Residency (see map, p. IQ). Meanwhile protection-loving Imperial Airways revised its flying route to India, establishing its regular...