Word: philidelphia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry George (1839-1897), after hardly more than a grammer-school education in Philidelphia, leda varied life, including seafaring, elopement, printing, journalism. In 1879 he published his most famous work, Progress and Poverty, which sold by millions and was translated into several languages. He toured Ireland, England, Australia for his cause-a single tax, a tax that would support all government by consuming all the economic rent of the land. The slogan of the Single Tax Party was at one time: "We Want the Earth...
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