Revenue to Defray War Expenses: Hearings & Briefs... on H.R. 4280U.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 - 665 pages |
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... contracts for munitions of war for the United States Government and the allies . Without such credit such contracts could not be finished and without such conversion of surplus into fixed capital credit could not be obtained ...
... contracts for munitions of war for the United States Government and the allies . Without such credit such contracts could not be finished and without such conversion of surplus into fixed capital credit could not be obtained ...
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... contracts re- ferred to . If this is permitted , a most serious situation will arise and one which will easily be seen to impose a hardship upon the corporations affected . The fallacy of the claim made with respect to these contracts ...
... contracts re- ferred to . If this is permitted , a most serious situation will arise and one which will easily be seen to impose a hardship upon the corporations affected . The fallacy of the claim made with respect to these contracts ...
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... contract would make the rate per message high enough to throw the service into the toll - rate section , which would cause a vast amount of confusion in administration and computation . To make the matter certain and in accordance with ...
... contract would make the rate per message high enough to throw the service into the toll - rate section , which would cause a vast amount of confusion in administration and computation . To make the matter certain and in accordance with ...
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... contracts in the future at least , if not as to the past , should be carefully guarded against . This subject was ... contract hereafter entered into for the payment of any interest , rent , or other fixed or determinable annual or ...
... contracts in the future at least , if not as to the past , should be carefully guarded against . This subject was ... contract hereafter entered into for the payment of any interest , rent , or other fixed or determinable annual or ...
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... contracts made in 1913 each system is to be greatly enlarged . The work has progressed , and it is expected that opera- tion of the completed enterprises will start in the near future . When that occurs the relationship between the city ...
... contracts made in 1913 each system is to be greatly enlarged . The work has progressed , and it is expected that opera- tion of the completed enterprises will start in the near future . When that occurs the relationship between the city ...
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Page 70 - ... life insurance companies issuing policies covering life, health, and accident insurance combined in one policy issued on the weekly premium payment plan...
Page 22 - ... in the case of a bank, banking association, loan, or trust company, interest paid within the year on deposits or on moneys received for investment and secured by interest-bearing certificates of indebtedness issued by such bank, banking association, loan or trust company...
Page 20 - An Act to provide revenue, equalize duties, and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes," the Act of October 3, 1913, entitled "An Act to reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes...
Page 613 - grass" and "straw" shall be understood to mean these substances in their natural form and structure, and not the separated fiber thereof.
Page 249 - An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes," approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen...
Page 53 - An Act to provide increased revenue to defray the expenses of the increased appropriations for the Army and Navy and the extensions of fortifications, and for other purposes...
Page 10 - ... employers, and all officers and employees of the United States having the control, receipt, custody, disposal, or payment of interest, rent, salaries, wages, premiums, annuities...
Page 613 - All goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced or manufactured wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor or/and forced labor or/and indentured labor under penal sanctions shall not be entitled to entry at any of the ports of the United States, and the importation thereof is hereby prohibited, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary for the enforcement of this provision.
Page 32 - ... paid in or earned surplus and undivided profits used or employed in the business...
Page 179 - dividends' as used in this title shall be held to mean any distribution made or ordered to be made by a corporation, joint-stock company, association, or insurance company, out of its earnings or profits accrued since March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and payable to its shareholders, whether in cash or in stock of the corporation, joint-stock company, association, or insurance company, which stock dividend shall be considered income, to the amount of the earnings or profits so distributed.