Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About this time Senor de Leon must be feeling very important at the thought of sitting at the head of such an august assemblage, with the representatives of Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Brazil, Czecho-Slovakia, Sweden and Uruguay ranged about him under his direction. But the League is yet...
Since representation in the House is on the basis of population, it is necessary that the number of representatives from each state be in proportion to its population. If population grew uniformly throughout the country there would be no need for reapportionment, but population does not grow in that way...
"3) An income tax on corporations graduated on the amount of income has no logical basis. The theory of a graduated income tax is that it is related to the capacity of the taxpayer to pay. A man with $100,000 can spare a larger proportion of his income than...
"A large corporation having a large income may be owned by a great number of small stockholders who can not afford to have their dividends cut down, whereas another corporation having a moderate income may be owned by one man who can well afford to pay a larger proportion of...
The greatest proportion of women working in any one state is in South Carolina, where more than a third earn their own living. The least proportion of women working is in West Virginia, where about one ninth of all women earn their living.