Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slouch hat and horn spectacles. He was, said newsgatherers, dodging newsgatherers, not Government officials. He did not fear extradition, they said, because he could not be extradited unless a French court said so, and a French court was not likely to say so because falsifying an income tax blank is not considered perjury in France. To perjure one must swear falsely before a judge, says French...
Said Senator Fess: ". . . Party responsibility . . . welfare of the country. . . . Prosperity . . . tax reduction . . . sympathy for the agriculturalist . . . enforcement of law ... I congratulate you . . . assured success . . . ability, integrity and devotion to public welfare...
...most right about the last War was Eugene Debs. He said that all we got out of it was influenza and the income tax...
...defenders of the administration answer that taxes have been reduced, they find themselves in a similar dilemma. The total taxes collected are $24,000,000 more than in the first year of the Coolidge administration. While tax rates have been reduced and some Wartime taxes abandoned, the government actually took from the people in income taxes $383,000,000 more during the last fiscal year than during the first year of the Coolidge administration. And even these reductions in tax rates have been brought about primarily because the administration has committed the government to appropriations authorized but not made, amounting...
...Blackmer was a partner of Oilman Harry F. Sinclair in the Continental Trading Co., of Teapot Dome ill-fame. After banking his $736,000 share of profits, he fled the country when the Continental Trading Co. was investigated by the U. S. He refused to return to testify. Tax liens and penalties of $8,498,935.78 were piled up against him by the Government. Last week, he had to flee France or submit to detention by French officials until Marshal Callen should arrive to fetch...