Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mattered not to the President that his Commerce Department's own Business Advisory Council had promulgated a tax revision program just like John Hanes's. What the President stuck for was the undistributed profits tax, a symbol to him of taxation-for-social control. Its aim is to force rich corporations to distribute earnings instead of keeping them in surplus. It also forces not-so-rich corporations to pay out, in dividends, earnings which they may need for capital expansion, or to pay debts, or as insurance against lean years. When Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance...
...mattered not to the President that his Commerce Department's own Business Advisory Council had promulgated a tax revision program just like John Hanes's. What the President stuck for was the undistributed profits tax, a symbol to him of taxation-for-social control. Its aim is to force rich corporations to distribute earnings instead of keeping them in surplus. It also forces not-so-rich corporations to pay out, in dividends, earnings which they may need for capital expansion, or to pay debts, or as insurance against lean years. When Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance...
Last week eight men who form a congenial group the 150 pound crew obliterated all vague comments about their organization, such as "fine looking crew," "smooth oarsmen", and "well coordinated boat" by bringing home the bacon in the figure of the Goldthwalt Cup, the symbol of their precedence over two other principal lightweight crews of the East. Yale and Princeton. The conquest was expected by many but few had dared to voice their opinions...
...Zionists campaigned to get 1,000,000 Jews to buy Shekalim at 50? each, entitling them to vote in world Zionist elections. Symbol of Jewish solidarity, a Shekel (see cut) shows a reproduction of an ancient Hebrew coin. In Poland, where Jews are poor, a Shekel costs only a few cents. In the last Zionist voting year, 1937, only 217,214 U. S. Jews bought Shekalim...
...efforts will be spared to make the visit a symbol of Southern hospitality. There will be steamboat rides, negro spirituals and barbecues. And behind all this lies the desire to spread Harvard's influence in a national sense and make it possible for the alumni to observe the intellectual progress of the University. Harvard is the richest university in the country, thanks largely to its alumni...