Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggested an unpaid board of tax experts to study equalization of tax schedules and to simplify them so that anyone can understand them. Both his Republican and his Democratic hearers appeared to like this idea. He said Secretary Mellon was "eternally right" in saying that lower surtaxes would yield more revenue. He wanted much lower inheritance taxes?say, 15% instead of 40% maximum?but did not think they should be abolished. He wanted a board created to clear up ancient tax cases from 1916 and 1917 "with an axe if need be." He wanted salaries of $10,000 a year...
...more. Un question ably it has a place in the academic world and all that it needs to do to claim it is again to burst forth in forensic splendor. The subject of "Is Harvard Collegiate?" will doubtless provide sufficient scope for all those with latent oratorical ambitions and yield much interest and entertainment for those who come to scoff or pray. Let it be hoped this eruption of the Union will have a positive result, for like volcanoes, debating societies are only worthwhile when definitely active or definitely extinct...
...jewelry is easy of avoidance and yields only 8 millions or 9 millions. It should probably be abolished. Several other taxes that yield little might well be abolished in the interest of simplicity...
...railway and steamship clerks, freight handlers, express and station employees unless it should abandon claims to jurisdiction over drivers and chauffeurs, etc., who belong to another union. The delegates of the suspended union, which has 160,000 members, threatened that their union would withdraw from the Federation rather than yield...
...Administration plan is the plan of the conservative business man-to put the business quickly on a strong financial footing. The opposition plan is a demand for more dividends at once. The Democratic plan will yield a larger tax reduction this year. The Administration plan will make possible larger tax reductions in years to come...