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...large corporation having a large income may be owned by a great number of small stockholders who can not afford to have their dividends cut down, whereas another corporation having a moderate income may be owned by one man who can well afford to pay a larger proportion of his income to the Government. If we have two corporations each earning $1,000,000, they would be taxed at one rate; if they are consolidated into one corporation they would be taxed at a different rate, a purely arbitrary discrimination...
...duty of the Executive Council in such case to recommend what effective military or naval or air force the Members of the League shall severally contribute to the armed forces to be used to project the covenants of the League. The high contracting parties agree further that . . . they will afford passage through their territory to the forces of any of the high contracting parties who are cooperating to protect the covenants of the League...
...reason for moving to the Square was that her son is coming into $2,500,000 left to him by his grandfather and that it was necessary that he should maintain himself in a style befitting his coming station in life. . But she thought that, if Sir Thomas could afford to rent a house for another woman, he could certainly afford to support his wife in comfort...
...Thomas, son of old Sir Joseph, pill maker, who died in 1916, unfolded anew the extravagances of his wife and informed the court that his income was only $75,000 a year after taxes had been deducted. On that amount, he said, he could not afford to permit his wife to pledge indiscriminately his credit. The Court agreed...
...come so late?" asked critics. "Because five days is enough time for our men to train in; and if it is not enough, we cannot afford longer," replied the Britishers. "Why have you no coach?" asked pressmen. "For the same reason: we cannot afford one," said they. At Cambridge, Mass., blond David, Lord Burghley, heard a pistol pop, took a step, two, three, sailed over a white hurdle, repeated this bounding, this stepping for 120 yards, winning the first event for England...