Word: return
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...inexpedient: [a] Refund of tax aids in producing deficit which must be met by increased taxation or a loan: Nation, March 12, 1891; [b] Return of tax lawfully collected tends to discredit the government: Veto message, p. 505; [c] Leads necessarily to return of other war taxes, e. g. income tax: Veto message, p. 505; Q. J. E., III, 452, 456; [d] States will be demoralized by sudden filling of their treasuries, cf. results of "deposit of 1836" : Bourne, "History of the Surplus Revenue...
...once to assert his superior knowledge over that of his various ministers: and it mattered not that a minister happened to be master of his own specialty. Emperor Wilhelm's notion of monarchy is that all whom the monarch condescends to notice are thereby greatly honored and should in return be entirely submissive to the monarch's bidding. Thus did Emperor Wilhelm turn out Minister Gosler. So suddenly does the emperor indulge his whims that the Berliners call him Der Ploetzliche...
LOST.- A fountain pen, Caw's Dashaway. Finder will please return it to the CRIMSON office, 3 Linden...
AMUSEMENT COM.LOST.- A note book with my name in. Please return to Leavitt and Peirce...
...HATHAWAY, JR.LOST.- A blue-book of French exercises. My name on outside. Please return to Leavitt and Peirce...