Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inaugurated a program of destroying coffee bought from growers with the proceeds of a $2.40 per bag export tax on coffee.* Familiar sights in Brazil ever since have been huge grey-green piles of coffee beans smouldering slowly away under great smoke plumes, barges lumbering out to sea to dump coffee overboard, workmen mixing coffee and tar into briquets for building. Since 1931 these activities have destroyed 52,547,493 bags of coffee (almost 7,000,000,000 lb.), worth at last week's price of 9⅛per lb. some $638,750,000, and sufficient to supply every...
...Deal spending. During the week, the Federal Reserve Board loosened margin requirements,, effective Nov. 1, thus carrying stocks through their steadiest week in two months (see p. 59). By week's end, Washington was seriously considering the possibility that Congress must soon revise and modify the capital gains tax and the undistributed profits tax, which Business bemoans as a stumbling block to recovery...
...William Averell Harriman, board chairman of Union Pacific Railroad and head of the President's Business Advisory Council. That these business-minded visitors talked about means of easing up on New Deal restrictions on Business, both Franklin Roosevelt and his callers solemnly denied. Confronted by Washington reports of tax revision, the President avoided endorsing them. Instead, he told his press conference that the reports were written from the point of view of those-who-have rather than of those-who-have-not-who were, said Franklin Roosevelt, still his major concern...
...with the victim to cheat another member of the gang at cards or dice; selling counterfeit pawn tickets for supposedly stolen articles; selling shares in smuggled property; selling complicated but useless counterfeiting machines. Confidence men also practice such sidelines as extorting money from homosexuals and, more recently, from income tax violators ("the Federal shake...
Longtime pastor of St. Stephen's Church, whose congregation of 25,000 was Manhattan's largest, Priest McGlynn first irritated his superiors by opposing parochial schools. He definitely alarmed them by becoming a convert to Henry George's idea that a Single Tax* would be the world's economic salvation. When Henry George ran for mayor of New York in 1886, Single-Taxer McGlynn campaigned for him "because the triumph of his ideas means the bringing about of conditions under which it will be possible to do God's will on earth...