Word: maximum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...consider the Italian nation in a permanent state of war! ... I consider the next five or ten years decisive for the future of our nation, because international competition is growing ever keener. . . . Even as controversies are not permitted at the front in wartime, so now we must realize the maximum national efficiency...
...earthquake was observed in the seismograph at the University observatory at 9.21 o'clock yesterday morning, according to Professor K. F. Mather, Professor of Geology. The quake was one of unusual intensity, not reaching its maximum until 14 minutes after the first tremor. The seismograph record indicated that the disturbance was about 4500 miles in a southerly direction from Cambridge...
...agreed with only two or three dissenting votes that the estate taxes prevailing during the past year should be abolished retroactively. The maximum estate tax until June, 1924, was 25%, and since then it has been 40% (TIME, June 2, 1924.) Under the new bill it is to be 20%. It was argued that it was unfair to assess unusually high estate taxes against those who happened to die in the last two years, when taxes before that were lower and are now to be lower. So the 25% maximum rates were restored until the new bill becomes effective. Estate...
...floor of the two Houses, and especially in the Senate, the bill will not have such "clear sailing" as it has had in committee. Some Democrats and the radical Republicans will want to have higher maximum surtaxes than 20%, some will want higher maximum estate taxes than 20%, some will want higher personal exemptions than $3,500 for heads of families, and some will violently oppose repeal of the tax publicity provision of the present law. Of course there will be modifications in the bill as now brought forward. The question is, "Will they be major or minor...
...Gift taxes would be abolished, but all gifts made within two years of death would be classed as part of the estate for tax purposes. (The Treasury wished gift taxes abolished. The present maximum gift...