Word: alterity
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...Congress to alter the tax laws, but he listed faults of the laws, chief of which were the surtaxes which he believed should be lowered from 40% to 15% or 25%. He held that the higher rates result in loss of revenue. He also declared that the maximum inheritance tax, 40%, is too high and that the publicity feature of the tax law should be repealed...
That Congressional leaders decided to await the outcome of the suits before considering whether or no to alter the publicity clause of the Revenue...
...neglecting Professor Baker and his branch of the English Department. But here was a matter affecting in a most profound way Harvard policy, and although the Board of Overseers is responsible for the acts of the Corporation and may be consulted by it at any time and may alter its actions, yet in this case not one inkling of Baker's struggle was ever allowed to reach the Overseers, the elected representatives of the alumni...
...decision does not greatly alter the force of the Volstead Act. That Act forbids the manufacture, etc., for sale, of intoxicating beverages and defines such beverages as those containing more than ½% of alcohol. But tucked away in the Act is a sentence which says...
...personnel of the committee which is directing the change guarantees that it will not be another halfhearted attempt to alter matters for the better. And looking at the special circumstances of the University's nearness to Boston there seems to be every reason for predicting success to the reorganized bureau. Once its aims are fully realized the American ideal of education for all who desire it will not seem as Utopian in Cambridge as it may seem...