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...delegation of southern Governors, hot from the hearings of the Ways and Means Committee, where they had recommended repeal of Federal estate taxes, dropped in at the White House to see Mr. Coolidge, who agrees with them in that respect...
Clubmen and Editors. Votes or questionnaires sent to members of the Directory of Directors in New York City, the Cleveland Rotary Club, Rochester Kiwanis and Kansas City Clubs, in all except the last, showed a majority in favor of repeal or modification of Prohibition. Similar votes among laboring men in Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Chicago, Missouri, Pennsylvania, showed only an inconsiderable minority for the continuance of Prohibition. Votes by editors of newspapers showed a considerable majority in favor of Prohibition...
...probably join Professor SMITH in this view, while placing stress on compliance with the duly enacted laws even at one's discomfort or personal loss. Question the expediency or wisdom of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead act and do what you can to bring about their modification or repeal if you believe them to be unnecessary or injurious, but obey them both. Democracy cannot endure without habitual obedience. That is axiomatic. On the other hand, it cannot progress to its highest state through standardization, extrinsic suppression or legislative restraints. It can have that hope only through the self-disciplined...
...Revision. Can Congress be persuaded to repeal the income tax publicity measure, to reduce or abolish inheritance taxes? How far should income taxes be reduced...
...interior representatives contended that such title should not automatically pass, hut should be acquired only from the state. Shorefront property holders have benefitted by millions through the present law, and for once they shivered slightly when the proposal was made to halt the present practise. But the proposed repeal was soon put into the discard by the triumphant clan of realtors; and Florida's record as a 100% Utopia for the wealthy has been preserved intact...