Word: reductionism
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Last November, Secretary Mellon proposed a plan for tax reduction - first edition. Subsequently the Ways and Means Committee revised the bill and approved it with not many major changes - second edition. The House itself then got to work on the bill and made some considerable alterations, including the Longworth surtax...
What Britain Thinks. British opinion was pessimistic over the acceptance by Germany of the report. London announced that Britain would not participate in the proposed $200,000,000 loan. It was learned that delay in publication of the report had been caused by opposition of the British delegates, Sir John...
Eric von Stroheim, famed cinema director: "While testifying in an effort to obtain a reduction in alimony payments to May von Stroheim (once my wife), I was interrupted by counsel. Said I: I'll smash your face.' Said his honor: 'That statement takes a $50 fine.'...
No president, coming into office the way President Coolidge came in, could expect to pull a party guilty of such practises out of its hole. But President Coolidge, in my opinion, has handled the situation about as badly as it could be handled. He was given the country a lot...
It is impossible for anyone to tell what principles actuate either party. This might seem merely a further sign of the disappearance of party boundaries were it not that President Coolidge has set forth definite issues in taxation and the bonus. The trouble is that beyond a few stout supporters...