Word: repealers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittsburgh at the leading hotel, an "Anti-Prohibition Enlightenment Dinner" was held by the local branch of the National Association against Prohibition. Congressman John Philip Hill of Maryland, discussed a bill he will present 1) to repeal the Volstead Act; 2) to have each state define for itself "intoxicating liquors" referred to in the 18th Amendment, and enforce its own laws on the subject; 3) to have the Federal Government punish any person guilty of transporting into any state liquor more potent than therein allowed, the punishment to be ten years' imprisonment...
...sailing" as it has had in committee. Some Democrats and the radical Republicans will want to have higher maximum surtaxes than 20%, some will want higher maximum estate taxes than 20%, some will want higher personal exemptions than $3,500 for heads of families, and some will violently oppose repeal of the tax publicity provision of the present law. Of course there will be modifications in the bill as now brought forward. The question is, "Will they be major or minor...
...Publication of the amount of tax paid by individuals would be once more forbidden. (The Treasury advocated repeal of the publicity clause...
...delegation of southern Governors, hot from the hearings of the Ways and Means Committee, where they had recommended repeal of Federal estate taxes, dropped in at the White House to see Mr. Coolidge, who agrees with them in that respect...
...comes the prospect of a new Revenue Bill in Washington, designed to satisfy the desires of conservative business men (see Page 6, TAXATION). Not only will the income tax rates be lowered, thus freeing much money each year for investment in business instead of Government projects, but the anticipated repeal of many excise nuisance taxes should also prove a considerable boon to trade...