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Taxes. The President asked for more taxes, leaving types and amounts to Congress. But he left no doubt that he is utterly opposed to sales taxes or processing taxes which do not disturb profits, but soak the consumer. Ability to pay he fixed as the guiding principle. From these clues taxperts could guess the shape of the bill that will destroy next spring's beauty for many a citizen: stiffer excess-profits taxes* (not a straight-out increase in regular corporate income-tax rates); another increase in surtax rates on incomes, probably on those in the so-called "savings...
...pond (strictly forbidden) to win a $50 bet, got kicked out of the Concordian Literary Society for reciting nasty verses, bootlegged pistols to his schoolmates. His crowning escapade was a clandestine prize fight he staged to raise money to buy a motorcycle. Having primed his second to soak his gloves with water so that he could hit his opponent harder, Chanler went six rounds against a bigger boy before 150 delighted schoolmates (who paid $1 each), was knocked out in the seventh when his gloves got so heavy he could scarcely lift them. The Rector summoned Chanler, ordered...
...John implied that the already crushing British income tax, which long ago ceased to be purely a "soak-the-rich" proposition, will have to be extended downward from the white-collar to the soiled-collar class. Britain is spending half her national income on the war, the Chancellor warned, yet even with armament plants going full blast 1,400,000 workers are still unemployed. Sir John, with typical British forthrightness, declared that a war of this magnitude cannot be fought on any easy assumption that it will not depress the existing standard of living in Britain and elsewhere...
...host of new millionaires to grab economic control of the country and throw $50,000 parties, but these victories also resulted in the Populists, the Knights of Labor, the Sherman Anti-Trust law, the first Federal income taxes. Further victories for wealth inspired further income taxes, inheritance taxes, soak-the-rich propaganda...
...great majority of Germans have always washed themselves with laundry soap-toilet soap in the Reich can now be sold only for the use of babies and physicians-but last week even laundry soap was hard to get. Housewives were advised to soak potato peelings in water, use the resulting mess as soap. Discovery that cellulose, used in making explosives, can be produced from discarded potato tops was announced in Berlin last week, caused the price of potato tops, hitherto not marketed but thrown away, to rise in Germany...