Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incomes of the calendar year 1925. This would mean that 90% of the income taxpayers would receive refunds ranging from 11? to $1.69; the richer 10% would, of course, get proportionately larger benefits. The President's plan, hastily precipitated by the elections, caused some rejoicing in Republican ranks but served chiefly to stimulate criticism and other surplus-removal schemes...
...Then, last week, Secretary Mellon announced a sound, simple plan of his own to meet the present situation. Republican harmony-artists said it was a "new interpretation" of the President's scheme, but in reality it is both a gentle repudiation of the Coolidge plan and a rebuke to the Democratic zeal for a general tax cut. Mr. Mellon wants the surplus to be credited to income taxes payable in 1927. Said he: "With only a few months' test of the Revenue Act of 1926, common sense requires that we do not act precipitately. . . . The necessity that...
Strange it is that this "standpat" Republican should have been born in Guilford, N. C., in 1836 in the reign of Andrew Jackson, whose Democratic pals spilled cider on the White House carpets. Then he spent his boyhood near Terre Haute...
Last week he went into a deep sleep; after ten hours his heart muscles weakened; he died a "standpat" Republican, with something of the humanity of Abraham Lincoln, something of the fire of "Jim" Reed...
...subject of the debate is a political question of very recent development in Washington. President Coolidge, presumably because of the defeat of a number of Republican candidates in the recent senatorial elections, issued on November 6 a proposal for a tax rebate. The Democratic party, sensing that the proposition was a Republican attempt to regain popularity among the tax-payers, has assailed it vigorously...