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...offset by widespread consumer subsidies. Queuille promised the farmers a subsidy on commercial fertilizer prices, the workers a subsidy to keep coal and electricity prices from rising more than 10%. He said that he would raise funds for the new subsidies as painlessly as possible, by taxes on "uncommon goods" and exports...
When Finance Minister Bosch took office, there was a deficit of $18 million; as he stepped out, Cuba had its largest surplus on record - more than $15 million. The secret of Bosch's success was uncommon ministerial honesty and unswerving drive to collect taxes uncollected by lax predecessors. "Everyone will pay," he announced, "without exception or privilege. I'll send them bills...
Better than any book before or after, it created a believable social backdrop for the Spanish civil war, described the barbarous excesses of both sides with uncommon realism and candor...
This was not uncommon. Our school was engaged, at the time, in a small war with a neighboring parochial school called St. Anthony's. The St. Anthony's boys jumped us on the way home from school; we threw snowballs at the stained-glass windows in St. Anthony's. It was good clean fun and everybody enjoyed it. Hudson Park was the official battlefield for the war on weekday afternoons...
...Dever debate were those that the CRIMSON had the good taste not to print in accounts of the planned meeting. The failure of the Republicans to induce Mr. Coolidge to appear at Harvard to debate the Governor appears to have called forth from the HYRC an employment of invective uncommon to political controversies among men of honest convictions. This stream of scurrilous charges cannot hide the following unalterable facts...