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...Bone apparently failed to take into account that many States do not allow taxpayers to deduct Federal taxes in figuring their State income tax. Bone, Nye & Co. proposed such wartime tax rates that many top-bracket taxpayers would find their total taxes all but swallowing their net income (but not exceeding it, as newspapers reported last week). In New York, for example (which has a State tax graduated up to 7% plus a 1% emergency tax), a $500,000-a-year man in a war year would have to pay Federal and State income taxes totaling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Profiteers Beware | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...squash tennis is the New York Athletic Club's 31-year-old Harry Florian Wolf, who has held the so-called national amateur championship for nine years. Last week, on the slick white courts of Manhattan's Harvard Club, Slugger Wolf pasted his way through a bracket of 37 aspirants to his tenth championship, but as far as 99.44% of U. S. sport followers were concerned, he might as well have won the ash-barrel-rolling title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courts & Racquets | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...Chief" Boston climaxed his point winning with a championship in the unlimited class from George Hooper of Syracuse. He won his final match in the most decisive contest in the last bracket to bring his personal point total to six with a fall earlier in the meet and five points going with first place...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: WRESTLERS THIRD IN INTERCOLLEGIATES | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Written in simple you-style by a certified public accountant, Your Income Tax treats the befuddled lower-bracket taxee very much as a psychiatrist would handle an alarmed patient. The 120 pages of text lay every bugaboo from Who-Must-File-a-Return to What-to-do-if-They-Get-After-You. You can hardly go wrong unintentionally. Author Lasser warns you sternly not to try it intentionally, then proceeds to list hundreds of legal exemptions and deductions that you may not have thought of before. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bugaboos Laid | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Besides Partlow, high jumpers in the six-foot bracket include Captain Bob Haydock, Gil Aertsen, and Irving Michelman. And on an approximately even par with the Sophomore kangaroo are Rock Hollands and Paul Morgan. The shotput and discus trio of George Downing, Howie Mendel, and Nat Heard is perhaps the strongest unit on the team, while Bill Shallow, Arnie Gale, and Bob Sears will bear the brunt of the hammer-throwing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

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