Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...takes great pride in the fact that ours is one of the most crimeless cities among metropolitan cities of the world. We have never had racketeers or gangsters here; we have not had a kidnaping for ransom since the turn of the century; sex crimes of violence are lower per capita of population than any city of comparable size in the U. S.; bunco-men and pickpockets fight shy of San Francisco; robberies and burglaries are constantly decreasing; in short, no less an authority than Director J. Edgar Hoover has described San Francisco as the "white spot of the nation...
...heed the lesson, my fellow Democrats! . . . The Doones [Republicans] are in the valley. I pray you, gentlemen, train your guns a little lower...
Homer Bone figured that such absurdities could be eliminated, would affect few people anyhow. For 1937, only 48 taxpayers reported net incomes of between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000; only one of above $5,000,000. But Bone & Associates proposed to lower the personal exemption for single persons from $1,000 to $500, for married persons from $2,500 to $1,000, reduce allowances for dependents from $400 to $100, up the basic tax from 4% to 6%. Proposed takings from sample taxable net incomes (before State taxes): $60 from $1,000, $860 from...
...also is its formulation of definite and positive criteria for advancement. The young teacher will now know what to aim for, what to stress; and he need no longer cower so abjectly before the dread god Publication. Together these recommendations should effectively dull the Demolition sword suspended over the lower academic ranks...
...general, the relation between the department and the Administration in the matter of choice of personnel should be one of collaboration and frank interchange of views, rather than of successive and independent inquiries in which a higher authority merely supersedes and overrules a lower...