Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Story of Louis Pasteur" combines accuracy with shrewd selection that keeps an eye on dramatic values. The result is a most moving account of the career of the humbly great French chemist. Paul Muni, with admirable insight and restraint, and an efficient camouflage of synthetic whiskers, gives us the determination, perseverance, and kindliness of the pioneer warrior against man's microscopic foes. Josephine Hutchinson is equally good in the role of the sympathetic, self-effacing wife...
...that both Gladys and Jan know more about vocal cords than histrionics. But there are many snatches of freshness, and Jan keeps you fairly excited by a fiery vigor amounting almost to daftness. Gladys, moreover, does not invite you to shut your eyes, however rapt you may be on account of here voice. And then, both of them are glorious singers...
Think of the opportunities for graft in all this. When Tammany comes back into its rightful zamindary, taxes can be raised on all buildings and all land beneath, large districts condemned, appraised at almost zero (on account of the high taxes), paid for at that price, and a low - cost, tax-free, housing project begun under governmental aegis...
...undivided profits tax, the corporation might declare the same dividends with the result that it would have to pay 35% on the remaining $500,000. Thus the Government would get $175,000 in taxes and the corporation could still add $325,000 to surplus. Stockholders, on their own account, would have to pay the 4% normal tax on their dividends-$20,000 in taxes. Thus the corporation would be out an additional $15,000, the stockholders an additional $20,000. The Treasury would gain $35,000 in tax revenue which would be the equivalent of an increase of the present...
...AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE (1917-1919) - Major General James G. Harbord - Little, Brown ($5). A detailed account of the organization of the A. E. F. and the use of U. S. troops during 1917 and 1918, by General Pershing's Chief of Staff. Military reminiscence and military history combined to illuminate the paper work behind the infantry...