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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main the recommendations of the Treasury as to administrative changes. In its failure to reduce the maximum surtax below 40% and in its increase of estate taxes to a maximum of 40%, the Revenue Act violated cer tain principles of taxation which I feel to be fundamental to any sound reform of the tax system. This may be tax reduction. It is not tax reform...
...back many years. In general, they can be summarized as the failure of the road's earnings to sustain its tremendous capitalization. In part, the bankruptcy can be attributed to one of the greatest gambles ever taken in U. S. railroading?the construction of the 1,400 miles "Puget Sound extension" which carried the road from the Middle West to the Pacific Coast, 15 years ago. Previous to this time, the St. Paul had been a prosperous "granger" road in the Middle West. But James J. Hill and others had pressed their lines to the Coast, and the St. Paul...
...impossible here. If American preparatory schools measured up to the high standards of Eton and Rugby, then Mr. Darrow would be completely justified in his desire to see the practices of the great English universities speedily imported. But such an event would benefit only a small minority and would sound the death-knell of any hope of cultivating the remainder...
...Harvard warbler makes a rhyming sound...
...Nome is situate on the south coast of Seward peninsula, many hundred miles from the Alaska peninsula. Anchorage is north of the 61st parallel of North Latitude and Nome is north of the 64th parallel. If you referred to the great body of land between Cook Inlet and Norton Sound as the "Alaskan" peninsula, you will find on examination that neither Alaskans, maps nor geographers agree with you. In other words, there is no "Alaskan peninsula, while the "Alaska" peninsula is situate as above described...