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Actually, joint returns will simply mean that wives and husbands with separate incomes will in many cases move into a higher tax bracket.* But women felt that the rule raised a long-laid bogey: the notion that a wife's property belongs to her husband...
...Louis, choleric Neville Miller, Louisville chum of quiet Mark Ethridge, and now $40,000-a-year president of the N.A.B., blasted the monopoly report. Snapped Fly: "These men, to divert attention from the fact of monopolistic control in their hands, conjure up insistently the bogey man of Government operation." Retorted Miller: "It may be that those who think Government operation is essential are conjuring up the bogey man of monopoly...
Time, and Mr. Pace's sentiments, worked for Franklin Roosevelt and his bill. Congressional mail had dropped way off; all the other bogey-bills had drawn much heavier mailbags. The House attention stayed on Sam Rayburn and on tall, balding Republican James Wolcott Wadsworth of Geneseo, N. Y.-who made the best House speech of the week, merely pleading for a unity of purpose in grave times...
...Defense topics survived the regimental atmosphere. N. A. M.'s hard-working ex-president Henning Prentis Jr. attacked N. A. M.'s old bogey, "the juggernaut of collectivism." N. R. D. G. A. counsel Irving Fox discussed the Wagner Act, said retailers might soon have real union trouble ("the noose is slowly . . . tightening"). Other topics: "Has Your Store A Personality?," " 'Quickie Bars' for Hasty Patrons," "Dermatitis from Wearing Apparel." The delegates authorized a committee to raise funds for destitute British drapers...
...inspired. Representative Dies plans to conduct his own little "investigation" of the strike this next week. The public is being treated to the disgusting spectacle of a tragi-comic feud between the F.B.I. and the laurel-laden Dies Committee, over which of the two can conjure up the biggest bogey, with the tin cup of hysterically patriotic approval going to the winner. Chief among the side-line rooters are our patriotic business men who stand in high-minded solidarity in decrying any labor activity today as sabotage of the defense program. The press, with its usual uncanny feeling...