Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Deneen spent several days as a guest at White Court. Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, paid a flying visit, having just returned from Europe. He looked forward, he told reporters, to a reduction of surtaxes to a maximum of 15% and a total reduction of $350,000,000. He favored reduction of the corporation tax from 12½% to 10%, objected to a graduated corporation tax and approved in general terms the Treasury's stand (see TAXATION...
...should be possible from a revenue standpoint to have a maximum normal and surtax combined of 25%. The Treasury thinks, therefore, that 20% is the highest surtax rate which should...
Senator Copeland of New York: $500,000,000 and a maximum surtax...
Salary. General Andrews had hoped to pay maximum salaries of $10,000 a year to the administrators of his new and larger districts. The Comptroller General ruled that $7,500 was the most that the law allowed. This reduced the chances of getting the type of men desired. Mr. Andrews conceived the idea that he might get some men of the dollar-a-year type at the lower salaries, but according to reports last week he had been unsuccessful at this. Another obstacle stood in the way of his plans...
...which has recently arrived and to which I gather you refer. It reads in part: "The smallpox situation in the United States seems to have begun to improve: 3,412 cases were reported in 27 states during the four weeks ending March 28. ... It appears thus that the maximum incidence was reached two months earlier than in 1924. . . . Smallpox is less prevalent in Canada than it was during the early months of 1924 . . ." This is hardly equivalent to saying that the disease is less prevalent "than ever before...