Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real issue of the Republican Party in connection with taxes, which have so helped to pay this, is that we believe in the principle of taxing people in accordance with their ability to pay. So we fix a rate of maximum productivity and minimum disturbance. It is really an issue of honest taxation against dishonest taxation. Our opponents play up a lot to the poor and downcast and against the rich, but they really leave the door wide open to let the rich man through. Our plan of taxation is not so much a question of who pays the taxes...
...happens, no changes have yet been made which severely tax the moderately capable at Harvard. But if some change is to be made, if there is to be progress in any one direction, that direction, according to every tradition and characteristic of the University should lead to the maximum development of potentially able individuals...
...fortnight ago the Senate Finance Committee replaced the original Mellon tax rates (maximum surtax 25%). Last week the Democratic members of the Committee published their own edition of the measure. It is known as the Simmons plan, in honor of Senator Simmons of North Carolina...
...Ernest G. Meyer, called to see a child suffering with diphtheria. Failing to make a proper diagnosis, he treated the condition by manipulations of the spine. Last week a jury in the Brooklyn Supreme Court found him guilty of manslaughter, on account of "culpable negligence," for which the maximum penalty is imprisonment for from ten to twenty years...
Fascisti lists of candidates named 356 men, the precise maximum of Deputies any party can get into Parliament under the new law. They include 216 genuine Blackshirts, 43 officers and soldiers, 2 of them totally blind, Sem Benelli (author of The Jest), 58 former Liberals, 10 former members of the Catholic Party, 26 nonparty...