Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manner in which the Federal government distributes its expenditures among the States. A stock of merchandise in a village, whether owned locally or at a distance, would pay the same personal property taxes and the earnings on the business would pay the same Federal income tax no matter where it was owned. Mr. Crabtree is right, however, to this extent, that the earnings of a business which is owned locally are spent locally, but the earnings which are sent to the distant owner are spent in a far away place...
...Whenever you write of Jugoslavia there is a certain dose of sarcasm present, and as a matter of fact, it seems that you are trying to picture Jugoslavia as a wooden kingdom, composed of semi-civilized peasants, with a clown king, and the mode of living of medieval times...
...interests" have no holding-of Public Service whatever, and a very small holding in the United Gas Improvement Company. Mr. Richard B. Mellon is a director of the United Gas Improvement Company, whose judgment and ability is highly respected by his associates. I know whereof I speak in this matter because I have been President of Public Service for more than 26 years-ever since its formation-and am a director and member of the Executive Committee of the United Gas Improvement Company...
Last week in his cheery way Mr. White undertook to speak for Kansas in the matter of social precedence for Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, who is also Dolly Curtis Gann, sister and hostess of the Vice President...
...would seriously interfere with the paving of streets, building of sewers, running of railroads, factories and other industries and also raise havoc with church attendance. . . . The moron as a rule is very tractable. He attends to his work only and doesn't even make unreasonable demands in the matter...