Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reduction. "The bill which I signed will save the people about $1,000,000 each day. I want further tax reduction and more tax reform. . . . Our first thought should be to maintain unimpaired the activity of agriculture and industry. That tax is theoretically best which interferes least with business. Every student knows that excessively high rates defeat their own purpose. They dry up that source of revenue and leave those paying lower rates to furnish all the taxes. . . . Good business is worth more to the small-income taxpayer than a considerable percentage of tax reduction. Only about...
...Secretary of the St. Petersburg, Fla., Chamber of Commerce has his way, that city will shelter no son of Abraham, or of Isaac, or of Jacob. He, James Coad, desires to maintain the neighborly spirit which he reckons to be one of the chief assets of the locality. Said...
Opponents of the payment-by-check plan, on the other hand, maintain that it offended employes by making generally known the amounts of their wages and salaries, that it wasted time by forcing employes to cash their checks in banking hours, and that it created a new danger of dealing with "raised" checks...
...take them to the cities from which they are to be broadcast, whereupon the local stations in those cities will put them on the air. In other words, the main wire channel is limited to what the American Telephone and Telegraph Company can provide. It has a service to maintain, and cannot throw overboard every thing to give right of way to broad casting...
...this is contained in the auto-advertising slogan of: "Don't Knock, Boost"; but to boost successfully something apparently has to be knocked, which, while amusing the gum-chewers also serves to maintain the world's greatest newspaper...