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Taxation. Prosperity of the nation depends on wise and scientific manner of taxation. Tax reduction should be tax reform. Tax reduction should not be confined to the 4,000,000 people who pay direct taxes, but be spread to the 100,000,000 who pay taxes in the form of living expenses...
Progressive reduction of taxes, as rapidly as possible, and in a sound manner, to a peacetime basis. A conference of Federal and state officers next November for lightening taxes. A Federal Commission to make a scientific study of taxation, with a view to a more equitable adjustment...
Colum has a romantic background, a background that is reflected in every word he writes, in the lilt of his voice, in the motions of his hands, in the occasionally fiery manner of his conversation. He was born in the town of Longford, in the Irish midlands, where his father was master of the Workhouse. From earliest childhood, he says, he was interested in wayfarers and vagabonds?and he says to his father's place came all the tramps, ballad-singers and strolling musicians of Middle Ireland. This, and his later life in County Cavan, in a place where there...
...father. It is the sort of picture which Americans are supposed to love, since it has comedy arid large business deals in it. But its appeal is chiefly through the quaint characterization and slow smile of Arliss, for the rest of the cast perform in rather convulsive manner. Taylor Holmes particularly can be quite distinctly heard screaming throughout most...
...Bedroom Window. The main mystery in this mystery melodrama is whether the audience are supposed to take it seriously. It deals with the solution of a murder during which most of the cast act, at times, in the most exquisitely idiotic manner. Ethel Wales, for instance, portrays a mannish woman novelist, who smokes insidious cigarettes and solves the crime, principally by climbing across an apartment house court on an ironing board. Even May McAvoy, who generally seems real even when the rest of the picture goes hang, is made to appear just a goofy little birdie. At that, the picture...