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...never heard of the Texas Tax Club, which the Texans, including the Speaker of the Texas House cf Representatives, claimed to represent. The Iowa Tax Club delegation came in two special cars, and included the Lieutenant Governor and several state senators. They advised the Committee to cut surtaxes and abolish estate and gift taxes rather than play to the galleries. They characterized tho inheritance tax as "picking tho pockets of the dead." Next day Messrs. Green and Garner said that there had been too much political talk and the Committee would stick to economics...
...British tariff-supervision. Presumably as many minor points of friction as possible will be cleared up at the conference; and it is thought probable that the tariff rate will be raised from 5% to 7½% in order to increase the revenue to a point where China can abolish some of her internal taxes...
...Monodrama", Evreinov himself explains the fundamental purposes and aspects of his way of "thinking the theatre". "Among other things," writes the author", monodrama solves one of the most burning problems of contemporary art, namely, the problem of the chilling and paralyzing and distracting influences of the footlights. To abolish the footlights in reality, as some propose, does not mean yet to abolish them in our imagination; it must be done so that-the spectator, as if happening to find himself on the stage, that is, the place of action, will lose sight of the footlights; they will remain behind...
Child Labor. One session of the convention was given over to the discussion of child labor and the means of passing a Constitutional amendment to abolish...
...appears certain that effort will be made to change the present shipping law, abolish the regional representation provided therein and make it an executive branch instead of, as now, an independent administrative office of Government, similar to the Interstate Commerce Commission. I wish to retire to be free to join with others in opposing such change without having it construed that such opposition was prompted by self-interest in wishing to retain the office...