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...Holmes in 1932, the change did nothing to alter the Court's balance and it was a minority again which defended Florida's right to impose a system of graduated taxes on chain stores. Brandeis' opinion, in this case too, was the statement of a fundamental tenet. "There is a widespread belief that . . . only by releasing from corporate control the faculties of the unknown many . . . can confidence in our future be restored. ... If the citizens of Florida share that belief, I know of nothing in the Federal Constitution which precludes the State from endeavoring to give...
...Great Depression of 1929 caused men to doubt the merit of all Andrew Mellon's fiscal works and most of all his tax policy in which the reduction of high surtaxes on big incomes was a prime tenet. To the Mellon mind taxation was simply a device for raising revenue. As a businessman he knew it unwise to charge more than the traffic would bear and it was his theory that high surtaxes reduce revenue by driving capital to take refuge in tax-exempt bonds and other devices for avoiding taxes...
...48th annual convention of the National Association of Life Underwriters in Denver last week delegates generally agreed that this rhetorical question by Vice President Alexander E. Patterson of The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. struck at the heart of insurance's chief current problem. Major tenet of modern life underwriting is counsel and service to the insured-no high-pressure methods such as some salesmen use to sell anybody anything for a commission. Appreciating that self-criticism in business is as healthy as it is unusual, the 1,500 delegates in Denver's Broadway Theatre voiced approval...
...have absorbed me. I have a sensation as though I were dissolving . . . I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of seeing you . . . My creed is Love and you are its only tenet...
Emphasizing his tenet that wisdom is necessary in the leadership of the country, President Conant declared, "Wise men are most easily differentiated from fools in times of sudden emergency, and a study of history, I believe, makes for wisdom...