Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...also moved and carried that a tax of 50 cents be levied on each member of the class for a beer night, and other expenses. By vote of the class an expression of thanks will be extended to last year's officers...
...lowest possible cost. In the face of a $20,000 surplus and the fact that the tendency has been to reduce this item of expense to members of the University one looks in vain for some justification for the Athletic Committee's action in imposing this additional tax. We all know there is a heavy debt on the Stadium, but the $20,000 surplus would seem to indicate that we are doing our fair share towards removing that debt. As it is only reasonable to suppose that the University will last several years in the future, why not allow...
...play is perhaps the most difficult that the chapter has yet presented, owing to the rapidity of action and the intricacy of detail. At the same time it is extremely well adapted for amateur production, since it is farcical and satirical in character, and does not tax too heavily the ability of amateur performers. Much credit is due Mr. Arthur S. Hills for his acting version of the play as well as for the details of the stage production. The performance as a whole was thoroughly finished. The action never lagged, and the stage "business," in the entire absence...
...secretary of the National Association of Democratic Clubs in 1888, and also of a powerful New York political organization during the campaigns of 1892. While holding the office of assistant attorney-general during Cleveland's last administration, he conducted a number of constitutional cases, such as the Income Tax case, and also took a prominent part in defending the new interstate commerce laws. In the Iron-Pipe Trust case, he obtained the first judicial decision condemning a manufacturing trust under the federal anti-trust law. Mr. Whitney also drew up the New York tenement house law of 1901 as counsel...
...might continue to vary prices without limit. There would be no economic equilibrium in such a regime. Prices would not even be seeking their level. A regime of monopoly is further contrasted with that of competition with respect to the incidence of taxation. There is some presumption that a tax on a manufactured article will bear on the consumer less severely when the manufacturer is a monopolist. The possibility of levying a tax on the foreigner by means of a tariff may seem greater in a corresponding degree when, the imported articles are produced by 'Trusts...