Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Senior Senate. Discussion of a Bill Aiming to Abolish the Present War Revenue Tax. Harvard...
...platform was adopted containing the following principles: Opposition to imperialism, to the present tariff rate, to trusts, and to an increase of the army; support of free trade for Porto Rico, of the reduction of the war tax, of an increase of the navy, of civil service reform, and of the gold standard...
...College property has finally been settled by the report of the Committee on Assessments which has declared in favor of the University. The trouble arose from the "Williamstown decision," rendered in February, 1897; by which all college property occupied by professors paying rental to the Corporation could be taxed. Starting with this concession, the city undertook to tax all College property during the years 1897, 1898, and 1899. For the first two years the College paid all assessments in full, but at the same time registered a protest which was carried to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts...
...Chapman began by referring to the corrupt conditions prevailing in New York since 1871. Little by little, reform work has been taken up, at first, almost unconsciously, recently, with clear purpose and understanding. In former times people thought that their political duties ended with a little bribery of the tax collector; they never cared for whom they voted. Now, the whole system of modern reform is analogous to the religious reforms of the Middle Ages, and men go into politics for the sake of purer government...
...circumvent this decision of the Supreme Court, the city of Cambridge has, during the past month, been attempting to carry a bill in the State Legislature, asking that the College property be assessed for its full value of over $10,000,000 and that this tax be paid to Cambridge out of the State treasury. This is justified, it is argued, on the ground that about 40 per cent. of Harvard men live in Massachusetts and enjoy the municipal advantages and improvements of Cambridge. The principle of this plan has a great significance since it will acknowledge the justice...