Word: readjusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems obvious that despite the great to-do being made on the Teapot Dome affair, taxation will be a political issue of first magnitude next Fall. Most business men are now wishing that the election were over, the political back-biting over; that the opportunity were presented to readjust our taxes calmly and scientifically, without political interference...
Irrigation and Reclamation?"Occupants of our reclamation projects are in financial difficulties, which in some cases are acute. Relief should be granted by definite authority of law empowering the Secretary of the Interior in his discretion to suspend, readjust and reassess all charges against water users. This whole question is being considered by experts. You will have the advantage of the facts and conclusions which they may develop. This situation, involving a Government investment of more than $135,000,000 and affecting more than 30,000 water-users, is serious...
...Reduce surtax rates by commencing "their application at $10,000 instead of $6,000 and scaling them upward to 25% at $100,000. "This will readjust the surtax rates all along the line, and the Treasury recommends the readjustment, not in order to reduce the revenues, but as a means of saving the productivity of the surtaxes. In the long run it will mean higher rather than lower revenues from the surtaxes. At the outset it may involve a temporary loss in revenue, but the Government estimates that even during the first year, if the revision is made early enough...
...College from the evil of abject submission to an all-powerful coach, which has been common in other colleges. But when the system of divided control encroaches on the efficiency of coaching and leads to a long string of defeats, it is time to call a halt and to readjust the emphasis And this, apparently, is what the rowing authorities intend to do this year. Consciously or unconsciously most of the leading colleges in the East have adopted a system in which, although ultimate responsibility remains divided, the coach has sufficient authority to insure his best work; Harvard is following...
...first medals on the battlefields of France. In the present opus he is concerned in various entertaining spectacles of battle, murder, and sudden death in the lands where there is much ice and snow. Particularly should all Pekingese, Pomeranians and Mexican Hairless be invited to the entertainment to readjust their perspectives on the true responsibility of the canine population...