Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much tinkered proposal. It sets out to scrap M. Doumer's unpopular "indirect taxation"; and proposes instead that great pressure be applied to the collection of the present "direct taxes"-the notoriously "uncollectable" income tax, etc. Then it turns about and tries to levy "indirect taxes" on the rich- the securities, luxury and automobile taxes. Next it straddles by increasing the postal rates, which affect all classes. It resorts to such highly experimental measures as trying to see whether the Government can step in and seize one-third of every estate-a sheer impossibility where the "estate" is literally...
...their social citadel. This element feared lest Distinction and Bon Ton, like old pieces of furniture left behind by the moving men, should grow dusty in the deserted edifice while in the new one-too big to be exclusive-quality rubbed shoulders with people who were merely rich. Again Mr. Kahn came to the fore. He persuaded the real estate company to let his producing company rest the decision with the present holders of parterre boxes. To these he said: "Let there be compiled, by the 121 present box-holders, a list of 150 prospective box-holders who are eligible...
Against moneyed power, the individual crusader for uncontrolled news can have little hope of success. Either he can enter on a lone attempt to reform the press, or, he can content himself with the laissez faire reflection that since interests are rich enough to control a paper, all sides are represented in the daily orgy of propaganda...
...would be hard to say which was the sillier-Rupert Hughes . . . or those other guests of the occasion who took the outbreak seriously enough to get vocally angry about it. ... [In addition to what Mr. Hughes said,] Washington also kept hens and a dairy. He was thus a rich butter-and-egg man from the South; but so to describe him would be a long way from characterizing the Washington that matters...
...Happening upon a rich uncle, he gets a job in the avuncular collar factory at Lycurgus, N. Y. His own neckwear improves. He sniffs wealth and position, smears oil on his hair and his manners. He puts afoot a promising campaign for the hand, body and prestige of Sondra Finchley, social princess of Lycurgus. While that plan is maturing, he cannot resist indulging in one of the factory girls, Roberta Alden. The physiological consequence is normal...