10 Jahre Wiederaufbau

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Identifikator:: 1768152721

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-148079

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: 10 Jahre Wiederaufbau

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: Wirtschaftszeitungs-Verlags-Ges. M.B.H.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: 664 S.; Ill.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Die direkten Staatssteuern in der Republik Österreich / von Dr. Otto Watzke, Ministerialsekretär im Bundesministerium für Finanzen

Collection:: Economics Books

INTRODUCTION Benjamin Franklin has been called the ‘Typical American”; but it would be more accurate to say that he was the only American whose personality filled out the requirements of the Franklin type. No other American, and no other man on either side of the Atlantic, possessed anything approaching Frank- lin’s range of knowledge in so many channels, or the standard of his practical wisdom, his experience, his humor, and his common sense. Franklin's career, comprising in all eighty-four years, covered experience and service as a printer, an essayist, a man of science, a teacher, a diplomatist of very high order, a philosopher, and a public- spirited citizen who did much to further the develop- ment of his generation. Under various emergencies and demands, Franklin gave evidence of courage of a very high type. The record of Franklin's action in presenting to the British Parliament the just demands of Americans who were claiming equal rights with other English-speaking citizens of the great British Commonwealth, and the picture of Franklin standing before that same Parlia- ment as representative of these transatlantic English- speaking peoples, and accepting with unperturbed countenance the stream of abusive invective that 111

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