Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Surtaxes: Beginning with 1½% from $10,000 to $12,000 and graduated upward (each rate being just 75% of the corresponding surtax at present) to 37½% at $200,000 and more...
Summary of changes: 43½% is the maximum rate; addition of a gift tax; reduction of normal income rates below the Mellon plan; increase in inheritance rates; changes, not expected by the Treasury, in the excise taxes...
...know anything about politics. This drew from Rhys Davies, Under Secretary of State for Home Affairs, the cutting rejoinder that tinkers were as well fitted to vote as hotel butterflies. "I have no acquaintance with hotel butterflies," parried Her Grace, smiling, "but I know some tinkers. At any rate, hotel butterflies can read and write...
...students in class ¶schools have not been forced into low grade institutions through lack of space in high grade schools. It was further pointed out that there is no dearth of students, that the number enrolled has increased during the last five years at the rate of 1,000 annually...
...food at Memorial Hall is probably fairly good, but certainly no better that, if as good as, that of other Cambridge restaurants. The sole advantage which Memorial can boast is a lower rate, and that is not enough. For there is scarcely any undergraduate at the University who is forced to financial circumstances to forego all other advantages for the sake of the lower rate. The one suggestion left to make is that the way to the undergraduate's heart lies rather through his palate than through his pocket-book: It would seem wise to try the experiment of raising...