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...making these studies of U. S. industrial efficiency call themselves Technocrats. They have a loose national organization, Technocracy, at No. 159 West 13th St., Manhattan. To Technocracy, engineers, scholars and businessmen send money and information. But the backlog is $100,000 earmarked by the Architects' Emergency Relief Committee. Two dozen otherwise unemployed architects last week were busily codifying the data. When they are through Technocracy will, have an informative industrial survey of North America from 1830 to date...
...have a solid backlog of assurance that there need be no hunger and cold in the United States. . . . The obnoxious features injected by members of the House have been eliminated. The $100,000.000 charity feature has been abandoned. The pork barrel infection has been eliminated...
Next speaker was Chairman Garfield. for the Administration's majority report plank. Again heckled, he remarked: "The great backlog of oak that gives heat to the home is not disturbed by the prattling of the kindling...
Votes. With Congressman Doughton, he started from scratch three weeks ago to fight the Sales Tax, which was to raise about one-half ($595,000,000) of the sum required to balance next year's Budget. He had no organized backing except the dissatisfaction of members with this backlog tax, no political power except his own arguments. Yet so well did he regiment the opposition to the Sales Tax fortnight ago that the House, as a preliminary to replacing that levy with other forms of revenue, boosted the normal and surtax rates beyond those in the bill. Under his spurring...
When House debate began, opposition immediately focused on the manufacturers' sales tax, the measure's backlog which the committee had imported from Canada (TIME, March 7). Anticipating popular outcry, the committee in its report argued long & hard for this new type of levy, the first ever to tax everybody in the land. The tax, it said, would not be pyramided on the retail public. Even if it were completely passed on to the consumer, which was unlikely, the $2,000-per-year man would have to pay only $15.75 more. The committee could find no other tax source which would...