Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real issue of the Republican Party in connection with taxes, which have so helped to pay this, is that we believe in the principle of taxing people in accordance with their ability to pay. So we fix a rate of maximum productivity and minimum disturbance. It is really an issue of honest taxation against dishonest taxation. Our opponents play up a lot to the poor and downcast and against the rich, but they really leave the door wide open to let the rich man through. Our plan of taxation is not so much a question of who pays the taxes...
Some Sugar. The Federal Sugar Refining Co., delivered 420,000 pounds of granulated sugar under Navy Order 6,273, and received payment, at the rate of 14? per pound which was slightly higher than the price fixed by the Paymaster General of the Navy for such sugar. Nevertheless, the sugar corporation claimed 25? per pound, making a balance due them of $37,350 plus interest. Their attorney has taken this claim to the Court of Claims, said attorney being the Hon. Hoke Smith, onetime Senator (Democrat...
Premier Kiyoura, referring to the unfortunate words, "grave consequences," contained in the Hanihara note to U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, said: "If we have not already made our friendship for the U. S. clear in a language foreign to us, we have at any rate shown it by a long record of friendship which may now be impaired, but never broken...
...rate, foreign countries are experimenting with cotton growing. The British mill interests are encouraging it in Egypt and India. Argentina recently brought in an experimental crop of 120,000 bales?a trivial amount now compared with the huge American crop. Nevertheless the Argentines, flushed with their successful competition with our wheat growers, are becoming enthusiastic over the possibilities in Argentine cotton. Thus far the boll weevil has not appeared there, but the customary labor shortage is considered to preclude any very great cotton production in the Argentine, at least in the near future...
...fashioned water pipe is passing, and cigars are too expensive for popular consumption. On the other hand, the coolie is taking very kindly to the cigarette. In fact, declares President R. M. Ellis of the Tobacco Products Export Co., cigarette consumption is growing in China at an even faster rate than in the United States...