Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these reasons, he said, he gravely disapproved the new Tax Bill. But it did have some good features. "Therefore, for the first time since I have been President ... I am going to let the act go into effect at midnight tonight without my approval...
...doing I call the definite attention of the American people to those unwise parts of the bill . . . one of which may restore in the future certain forms of tax avoidance, and of concentrated investment power, which we had begun to end, and the other a definite abandonment of a principle of tax policy long ago accepted as part of our American system...
Arthurdale gave Franklin Roosevelt a rousing hand for his memorable speech, but in Washington there was a different reaction. Judging by what he had said, the President, it seemed, had not read the new Tax Bill, or had not understood it. Among those most deeply concerned was hard-working Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Members of both houses flocked into the Senate Chamber next day to hear Pat Harrison insist that "American principles and Government principles of long standing" had not been abandoned in the Tax Bill which he had helped to write...
...something, if a tax factor could do it, that might assist in dispelling fear in the hearts of some people and restoring confidence in the mind of the American business man," said Senator Harrison, but the President's speech made it sound like "a monstrous tax bill," designed to let big taxpayers escape; on the contrary the first thing the bill did was positive-it erased the inequity of the old tax law by letting small businesses pay debts and meet deficits before levying on their undistributed profits, and by exempting all businesses earning less than...
...House last week with fire in her eye rose plump, weathered Labor Committee Chairman Mary Teresa Norton. Prodded and sustained by the powerful gentleman at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, Mrs. Norton had for a second time persuaded the House to take the Wages-&-Hours Bill away from the Rules Committee which had pigeonholed...