Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their platform pledges and make the promised 25% reduction in expenditures." Senators Long and Connally vowed that they would never support tax legislation which did not also raise surtaxes on larger incomes. Representative Snell, Republican leader in the House, took advantage of the confusion to remark: "The new Democratic motto is 'Soak the poor.' Last session it was 'Soak the rich.' Now they propose to load everything onto the small income taxpayer...
...course inevitable that the death of Calvin Coolidge should give rise to words of excessive praise both from his friends and associates in public life, and from the many whose motto it is to say nothing but superlatives of the recently dead. But although the first impulse is to brush aside these sweeping encomiums to the "great statesman" who has passed away, from their very extravagance something significant can be extracted, both about the man himself and the America which worshipped him. They testify to something in Calvin Coolidge's character, and in his role on the American scene, which...
...necessary to set a flat rate for courses in the various Schools, to charge all students the same amount. Otherwise, although the Schools themselves do not suffer, courses may be costing students several prices. These may redden the ledger, while from above the doors of Lehman Hall gleams the motto...
...then gave this up for a demonstration at the funeral of the victims of the ''Massacre of Plainpalais." At the week's end it seemed unlikely that the public would ever know who was responsible for the order to fire. A military investigation was ordered, soft pedaled. Said Giuseppe Motto, President of Switzerland and native of the country's one Italian canton...
...final vows completed, Katharine Drexel founded with the Pope's approval the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and became their Superior General. She took over the old Drexel house at Torresdale, Pa., later built a motherhouse at Cornwells Heights near Philadelphia. The Sisterhood's motto: "God's greatest work on earth is man. Man's master art is the leading of man to God." There are now 320 sisters. 41 foundations in 18 States. But Indians were not their only concern. Mother Katharine Drexel looked out from her cloister upon what she called "America...