Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increase inheritance taxes from the present maximum of 25% at $10,000,000 and more to a maximum of 40% at the same figure...
Before debate began the Democrats held a caucus which bound all the 207 Democrats of the House except one (Representative Deal of Virginia, who had promised his constituents before election to vote for 25% maximum surtaxes) to vote for the Democratic plan (44% maximum surtaxes) or the Frear insurgent plan with even higher surtaxes in view...
...Rickard (promoter of the Dempsey -Willard, Firpo -Willard, Dempsey-Firpo fights) laughed at the new promoters with indifferent scorn. He said they could not pos-sibly make money if they gave $500,000 to the fighters. He calculated that $600,000 would be the maximum receipts under most favorable circumstances, whereas expenses, including the $500,000 would approach, if not exceed, $1,000,000. Mr. Raymond is figuring on $2,000,000 receipts...
...Democrats voted "No," eight Democrats voted "Present." But it must be noted that all of the Republicans do not favor the measure as it stands. In fact, there are four types of opinion in the Committee: 1) Those Republicans who prefer the Mellon bill as it stands, with a maximum surtax of 25%; 2) those Republicans-including Chairman Green-who want a maximum surtax of 32% to 35%; 3) the insurgent Republicans-led by Representative Frear-who want even higher surtaxes and, as well, excess profits taxes; 4) the Democrats who favor a maximum surtax...
...demonstrated by photographs taken through the Mt. Wilson 100-inch reflecting telescope (largest in the world) to be another universe of stars, like our own, it was announced by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, where the pictures are being studied. Our universe is estimated, at the maximum, to be 350,000 light years* in diameter. N. G. C., 6,822 is a million light years away (six quintillion miles) -the most distant object known. The cluster was first observed by the late Dr. E. E. Barnard, but his tele- scope was too weak to resolve it into...