Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Senate-approved bill to cut income taxes by $4.8 billion reached the House last week, Minority Leader Sam Rayburn did his best as a Canute. He cried that it was reckless, in these times, to invite deficits: "Hadn't we better stay in a position where we will have the money to defend our shores?" But the House was in no mood for debate or delay. When the vote came, 84 Democrats deserted the Administration. The overwhelming tide of passage...
With the Wife's Help. Along with the subtractions, something new was added which would make dinner-table conversation out of the new tax bill for many weeks. It extends to taxpayers in all states the income-splitting benefits enjoyed by those in the twelve states (and Hawaii) with community-property laws.† For middle-bracket and upper-bracket taxpayers, this system of putting man & wife into a half-&-half fiscal partnership (TIME, Nov. 3) was the real bonanza...
...Mississippi's legislature shelved a bill requiring radio stations to play Dixie at the start and finish of each day's broadcast...
...Citizens of St. Louis were beginning to worry over having the lowest-paid major police force in the nation. Half of their 1,750 disgusted cops were in debt, others were quitting. As the Missouri State Legislature dragged its feet on a pay-raise bill, the crime, rate rose 58% over 1947. Said one $220-a-month patrolman's son: "I don't wanta be a cop; I wanta be a gangster. They make more money...
...World Health Organization, designed to be the United Nations' family doctor,* was looking a little peaked last week. WHO's chief supporter, the U.S., decided that it was tired of paying doctor bills. The House Rules Committee tabled indefinitely a bill that would have made the U.S. the 24th permanent U.N. member of WHO. Georgia's Committeeman Eugene ("Goober") Cox explained: "It was a manifestation of impatience with the U.S. joining these joint enterprises and then paying the full bill...