Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jumpy small-town editors," indeed! Just what do you mean by small-town editors, anyhow...
Basing his statement on the fact that the Massachusetts income tax is already nearly unbearable, and that increasing tax rates on real estate were driving industry out of the sate, he said that the proposed sales tax would only mean four cents a day from any man that received the salary of $25 a week. This is about half of the tax that goes into one package of cigarettes and would not be intolerable...
...sales tax would mean a return to the prohibition era," said Representative Miller, "In tax evasions and increase of government agents to enforce the tax." He claimed that the sales tax would strike at the small home owners and would give the money to the large holders of real estate...
...Exchange immediately, although but slightly, and filled the nation with probably unnecessary fears as to the financial condition of Wall Street. Yet the bankruptcy of such a prominent firm, the business of which was mostly concerned with banks and other respectable institutions, has significance. To the conservatives it must mean the crashing of the old and established foundations, the giving way to the new order. For the S.E.C. it is a bolster to their insistence upon strict regulation of national securities and exchange members and a great aid to their program for the complete reorganization of exchanges...
...graphically as possible-the more so by reason of the direct contrast with Harvard. Where this university is noted for its middle western intellectualism and all-round liberalism and even a fair amount of social consciousness, West Point represents the opposite in its democracy where money, name, or position mean literally nothing...