Word: reductionism
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With the first game of its schedule three days distant, the 1927 golf squad is practicing regularly on the course at the Oakley Country Club. The difficulty of reserving this course has complied a reduction in the squad. Dwight Barnum, Robert Bennink, E. D. Cole, R. B. Merriman Jr., Shiras...
"The need for economy in public expenditure at the present time cannot be overestimated. I am for economy. I am against every unnecessary payment of the money of the taxpayers. No public requirement at the present time ranks with the necessity for the reduction of taxation. . . . The burden of the...
¶Discussed and debated and amended the Tax Reduction Bill for the greater part of the week.
For an entire week the Senate labored over the tax reduction. When the surtax schedules were reached, it was expected that several days would be spent in debate. Instead, after only one day, the Democrats forced a vote and supplanted the Mellon rates by the rates proposed by Senator Simmons...
Placing the Simmons rates in the tax bill was not necessarily final, but regular Republicans doubted their ability to remove them. So, barring unexpected alterations, when the Senate passes the tax reduction bill, the joint conference will have to decide between the Longworth rates (which the House approved) and the...