Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stated flatly: "Mr. Slemp was mad when he came back from Cleveland, and he was mad when he went into the President's office yesterday morning and resigned, because that is exactly what he did." Mr. Slemp said such a statement was "much stronger than the facts." At any rate the President pacified him. When Mr. Slemp emerged, he announced that he had not resigned, that he was going to Cincinnati to a relative who was ill, that when he came back he would be made a member of an "ad-visory committee of the National Re- publican Committee, which...
...only income tax payer in the U. S. who did not benefit by the 25% reduction in taxes is Calvin Coolidge. According to Constitutional provision the President's salary may not be increased or decreased while in office. The courts have ruled that a change in the tax rates is in effect a change in the amount of compensation which an officeholder receives. On account of this ruling, President Wilson while in office paid no income tax, since there were no income taxes when he took office. Similarly Calvin Coolidge must continue to pay the same income tax rate...
...brave body-the National Bureau of Economic Research-plunged into calculations and came out with a result-somewhat postdated, to be sure, but nevertheless a result. It found that the population of the U. S. (increased in this country by reason of considerable immigration and an unusually low death rate) had jumped by Jan. 1, 1924, to 112,826,000 people. During the last half of 1923 the increase of population was especially large...
Total internal debt: 271,018,000,000 francs or, at present rate of exchange, about $15,500,000,000. The actual value of the internal debt in terms of dollars must, however, be placed at a higher figure. The lower the franc falls the less is the value of the debt; and as the franc is more likely to improve in future, the dollar value of the debt must be figured at from 20 to 25 billions...
...rediscount rate of the New York Reserve Bank compares with the rates of the other leading central banks of the world as follows: Austria 12, Belgium 5½, Bulgaria 7, Czecho-Slovakia 6, Denmark 7, England 4, France 6, Germany 10 (cen-tenmarks) and 90 (old paper marks), Greece 7½, Hungary 18, India 7, Italy 5½, Japan 8, Holland 5, Norway 7, Poland 12, Portugal 9, Rumania 6, South Africa 6, Spain 5, Sweden 5½, Switzerland...