Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Townsend's error lies in forgetting the simple truth that someone must produce the wealth which is consumed by the nonproducers, be they infants, old people, sick people, the unemployed, the idle rich, or the criminal classes. If Dr. Townsend's medicine were a good remedy, the more people the country could find to support in idleness the better off it would...
Miss Le Gallienne's production of "L'Aiglon" is unquestionably a fine one. The technics of the play have been mastered with admirable skill, the sets designed with an artistry which elicits well-deserved applause, and the company chosen with excellent discrimination. It is indeed unfortunate that this wealth of talent has been wasted on an unhappy choice of vehicle, but it must be admitted with all due respect to the dramatiser of Cyrano that "L'Aiglon" is a poor play. Restand may have believed that Napoleon's son offered the material for the creation of a modern Hamlet...
...student of the history of dining halls at the University will find a wealth of material in the clippings, old bills of fare, and bills preserved in Widener Library. For example: in 1874 a regulation provided that there should be "Three courses, served at suitable intervals, and the joints of meat should not be carved at the table. In 1893 the Boston Sunday Herald made a feature story of Memorial Hall, describing its luxuries, its architectural glories, and its negro waiters, "not quite the worst to be found," and very much addicted to a game played with little ivory cubes...
...owners. In Ohio and Florida voters have forced reductions in the real estate tax rate. New revenue, therefore, must come from other sources. Most popular alter native nearly everywhere is the graduated income tax. But income taxes fail to raise any worthwhile revenue in states with low per capita wealth. The Inter state Commission on Conflicting Taxation figured that whereas New York raises $5.60 per capita by its income tax, Arkansas raises only 11? per capita. Similarly Delaware raises roughly seven times as much per capita by its personal income tax as Virginia raises with a tax that is about...
...real estate tax rate. Other states will probably follow when their Governors make tax recommendations to Legislatures convening in January. For sales taxes can raise substantial revenue generally within 30 days of passage. Although the revenue per capita from sales tax does not vary so sharply with per capita wealth as with in come taxes, the variation is, nevertheless, considerable...