Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter to Gordon Ickes states that the name Ickes is found in ancient records under various forms-Icke, Ike, Icken, Iken, Ihk, Ihken, Itzken, Itken, Ickel, Ickels, Ickes-and that these are all to be found in Heintze-Cascorbi's Die Deutschen Familiennamen, Berlin, 1933. The upper half of the shield is silver with a gold crescent on the breast of the black "demi eagle." The lower half of the shield is red, the trefoils silver. The eagle sticking out its tongue denotes divine power, the crescent shows participation in crusades...
...peace drive which was expected to follow the coastal investment would have direct bearing on the entire balance of the south Pacific. If China could hold out, Japan would be reluctant to move elsewhere. If not, the scramble would be on as soon as the Germans got the incontestable upper hand in the West. China's resistance now depended almost exclusively on U.S. aid and on a quality which no one used to think the Chinese had until they flaunted it for four years-guts...
Under the new proposals, the middle and upper classes would have less money to spend next year, would be in no position to help bid prices up. Lower-class purchasing power would be curbed, though in lesser degree, by the new consumption taxes. In effect, all this adds up to one additional means of giving defense priority over consumer purchases...
...Treasury plan is still closely in line with the New Deal's general tax philosophy, whose purpose for years has been to prevent "oversaving" by taking money away from the savings classes. Its first result will be to make it difficult or almost impossible for middle-and upper-class families to continue saving money. But these taxpayers, who formerly had a margin for savings, will not be so quick to cut down on consumption as if they had not had such a margin of "fat" to work...
With a discussion on "Jefferson and the Crisis" this evening in the Union Upper Common Room, the American Civilization Program will conclude its yearly activities. Awards to the winners of the semi-annual essay contest will be given at a luncheon meeting in the Union at 1:00 o'clock this Friday...