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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward W. Bok's offer of $100,000 for a practical plan to promote peace (TIME, Jan. 7) bore fruit that tasted differently in different mouths. Its text was made public, with two summaries attached, the shorter of which follows...
There was an audible rustle of surprise when Professor Lowes announced some time ago that all students in English 72 would be allowed nay requested--to bring with them to the Mid-year examination all the text books and notes they desired. They might transport all of Widener Library to the examination room, if convenient...
When the bill was sent to the Committee, a summary of it was given out by the Treasury Department. The text of the bill itself was kept confidential by vote of the Committee in accordance with precedent for revenue bills. Nevertheless, there were leaks. Sections of the bill began to appear verbatim in the above papers, which moved Mr. Garner to say: "I think it is an outrage. I do not hesitate to say it is indefensible when Mr. Mellon has given out the practical contents of the bill and three newspapers have published parts of it, for the committee...
...reduce and equalize taxation, to provide revenue and for other purposes" as printed, containing the text of the previous tax law with interpolations of the proposed changes, came to about 85,000 words?the size of a small novel...
When published the text of the bill in no way diverged from the summary previously published (TIME, Nov. 19) except to enlarge on the details of the plan...