Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is disagreement among the overlords of the public purse. The insurgents and radicals in Congress, finding popularity in the slogan "Soak the rich," want to increase income surtaxes and restore excess profits taxes; the Democrats are willing to fall in with almost any program that will "soak the Republicans"; and the Republicans would like to reduce taxes, if they dare. The fight of the three Parties will take place when Congress opens. Already there is a contest on between the Republicans, those who dare to try reduction of taxes and those...
Born in a dark sailors' boarding house in Front Street, her first place was with the Farleys, rich, etiolated, precise. Rollo Farley, the pallidly esthetic son of the house seduced her?she gave him the inspiration for his one great poem. Then he got engaged to a girl of his own class who had a head like a beautiful egg, and forgot Bertha. Bertha moved on?she was always moving on. She bore a son to Rollo?a son who was adopted at the age of two weeks or so by the Bixbys of Detroit. As soon...
...like Samson, that his source of strength lay in his side-burns. From then on, the results of these games and the positions which they occupied upon the schedule appears to have a definite connection of cause and effect and in them the psychological "dope" artist may find a rich field for surveying and charting...
...contributor to magazines, he makes (in The Forum) this point: the young priest or preacher is not interested in debates about theological dogma (virgin birth, etc.); the young priest is interested in questions which he scarcely dares face, and those are the questions of " social justice." Are the rich too rich; the poor too poor? Since the church does so little to educate young men and women to marry intelligently, has it a right to forbid divorce? Birth control? Perhaps H. G. Wells is right-250,000,000 people is enough to be on earth at any one time...
AUTO KEY TO RICH CHEMIST'S SHOOTING...