Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raise revenue. Pseudo taxes, imposed for purposes of regulation rather than for the purpose of raising money, are constitutional or unconstitutional depending on whether Congress, through its other powers, is entitled to undertake such particular regulation. By inference the penalty taxes of the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, Kerr-Smith Tobacco Act, the Guffey Coal Act, cannot be upheld as constitutional taxes, can only be upheld if the aims of those acts are within the proper powers of Congress...
...from the New Deal's social security, railway pension and Coal Act taxes; $547,000,000 from the New Deal's processing taxes;* $354,000,000 from customs; $2,103,000,000 from miscellaneous internal revenue (of which liquor taxes make up one quarter and tobacco taxes almost an equal share); $160,000,000 from minor sources; and $1,943,000,000 from income taxes. This income tax yield is 77% greater than the income taxes collected in the fiscal year which closed last June. Lest the public should groan at paying so much in taxes the President...
WHEN brother Delta Tau Deltas from the University of Florida visit Sam Byrd in New York they still find him playing Dude Lester in Tobacco Road-now going on about the 900th performance-one of the most cussed sons in all the world-a tough, blasphemous kid full of sex and Georgia Cracker adolescent orneriness. Offstage, Dude is a slender ex-collegian who stocker journalism and wrote a few one act plays before getting on Broadway. Now he has to battle to keep from sounding like the half wittel nasty Dude when he's not being Dude, and that hard...
...Cotton farmers must not increase their plantings of peanuts, tobacco or rice but can grow any amount of feed or food for home use. Corn farmers must grow erosion-preventing or soil-improving crops on the land "rented" by the Government...
Other Dr. Pease "poisons": tea, coffee, flesh meats, vinegar, all condiments, most medical drugs, vaccines and antitoxins and tobacco. Dr. Pease, who got the New York subways to ban smoking in 1909, always tells of a horse he knew who got tea mixed in its feed and jumped off a cliff. "I have had a man." he said, "a nicotine slave, writhing upon the floor of my office crying, 'Why didn't someone tell me it was harmful? Why didn't someone tell me it was harmful?' He could not break the habit and he passed...