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...predicted it would "have an overall deflationary effect and change sales very little." Liquor and cigarettes have the highest excise tax burden of any commodities on them, he said. One reason, Butters stated, for Congress placing greater taxes on them in time of greater revenue need is the moral stigma attached to their...
...reputation and his professional career. Harvard University suffers from this situation, too. The young men who studied under him, a number of whom may be candidates for Government intelligence and research jobs, are directly affected. And, what is of even graver significance, the country is deprived, until this stigma is eradicated, of the intelligence and specialized knowledge of the Far East which he could contribute to its councils. The hachet men of the Chinese Lobby have now succeeded in disqualifying for public service almost every American of stature who has shown the slightest deviation from absolute devotion to Chiang Kaishek...
...reputation and his professional career. Harvard University suffers from this situation, too. The young men who studied under him, a number of whom may be candidates for Government intelligence and research jobs, are directly affected. And, what is of even graver significance, the country is deprived, until this stigma is eradicated, of the intelligence and specialized knowledge of the Far East which he could contribute to its councils. The hachet men of the Chinese Lobby have now succeeded in disqualifying for public service almost every American of stature who has shown the slightest deviation from absolute devotion to Chiang Kaishek...
...jeep jockeys suffer under a peculiar social stigma almost as bad as Trotskyism: they drive captured U.S. jeeps. When the drivers of the Russian jeeps boast that theirs are the best, the other two carefully but dolefully keep their mouths shut...
...college comics; there have been, however, occasional lapses when it has strayed after false gods. In the future we shall endeavor to eliminate these periodical lapses." The Lampoon wasn't the only College publication to make innovations. The Advocate began livening up its issues "to rid itself of the stigma of being merely 'academic' or 'precious...