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...these circumstances, M. Blum flatly demanded a direct levy on capital instead of a 14-year tax on "income." M. Painlevé dared not yield, because it was considered certain that the conservative Senate would kill any such measure even if it passed the Chamber. Still M. Blum insisted. He wanted a "capital levy" inserted "on principle," though the Senate should tear...
...expected that the Senate would kill the bill if it ever passed the Chamber. Le Temps called the present fiscal situation "a Tower of Babel...
...Under the iron rule of the proletarian dictatorship freedom still exists in Russia. Right here in Moscow, despite Red guards and secret police, freedom runs rampant, wild as wolves and as savage-a freedom anarchistic-free to rob, free to fight, free to kill, free (as needs often must) to starve...
...country against the brutality of football. When the last whistle had blow in the 1904 game, the sidelines were packed with players who, among them, had experienced almost every kind of injury known to man. It looked as if the best physical specimens in both colleges were about to kill each other off. A truce was declared and there were no more Yale-Harvard football games for two years...
...contest the Yale backfield was under oath to kick anything over the bar that wasn't imported, to send every pass out to the sidelines, and to kill all the Scotch on the field. The Harvard team swallowed hard but made no statement. It was fortunate that none was asked for, Harvard was thinking of the Old Army Game...