Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grundy is a man who raised $700,000 to elect Mr. Coolidge in 1924; who raised $615,000 in 1926 to elect a governor* of Pennsylvania who would veto a corporation stock tax; who raised $547,000 to elect Mr. Hoover in 1928. Mr. Grundy is a worsted maker of Bristol, Pa., and president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Grundy is the man who has gone down to Washington about every tariff bill since the Dingley Bill of 1897. Who knows better than Mr. Grundy why the Pennsylvania delegation in the House caucused unanimously for a special session...
Bargain. In the secret conferences, trading possibilities were offered by other Senate amendments to the Deficiency bill. The Senate called for publicity on all tax refunds of $10,000 or more; it supplied the next President with $250,000 to make a law enforcement survey. In the basement bargaining to follow, the House conferees might possibly accept these amendments provided the Senate backed down on its $24,000,000 dry fund. In the event of a deadlock, in conference, with neither branch of Congress receding, the entire $84,000,000 Deficiency bill would fail of passage...
...specific tasks which Charles Evans Hughes will perform for John Davison Rockefeller Jr. as special counsel in the fight to oust Col. Robert Wright Stewart as Chairman of the Board of Standard Oil of Indiana are not likely to tax his skill. Many another lawyer could? and probably will?attend to the technical points involved in the battle of proxies. But no other lawyer could bring to the Rockefeller cause such enormous prestige, such widespread confidence...
Forecast, not enacted, last week was a doubling and a more than doubling of each and every U. S. citizen's income tax. For the enemies of Prohibition had occasion to demonstrate that adequate enforcement would cost a billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) a year. And the friends and promoters of Prohibition had every reason to assure each other that?cost what it might ?Congress would vote all monies needed for this cause...
...control vested in his Republican legislature. This was one thing the young President could not stand. Between them grew an inevitable personal dislike. One time Governor Green kept President Little waiting one hour in an anteroom of the State Capitol. President Little had requested an interview about a proposed tax survey. Finally Dr. Little returned to Ann Arbor sans interview. It was then freely rumored that Governor Green might remove certain Regents, replace them with anti-Little men, force the Little resignation as Governor Roland H. Hartley had forced the resignation of Dr. Henry Suzzalo of the University of Washington...