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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Messrs. Morgenthau & Hanes about the possibility of removing tax deterrents to Business (capital stock, capital gains, undistributed-profits taxes, the rule disallowing profit-&-loss offsets from one year to the next). The President was described as agreeable to most of their suggestions so long as revenue is not cut. Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, field marshal of Vice President Garner's Economy bloc (see col. 3), sat in on one session, after which he described the President's tax attitude as "fine, harmonious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Appeasement | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...Although the President is opposed to economy at the expense of national defense, last week he telephoned to tell Chairman May of the House Military Affairs Committee to cut from $25,000,000 to $10,000,000 the amount to be expended this year on the proposed $100,000,000 purchase of strategic imported raw materials for war (tin, manganese, mercury, etc., etc.). He announced he favored double-locking the Panama Canal instead of digging a second canal across Nicaragua, on grounds of economy ($200,000,000 as against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Appeasement | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Arthur S. Pease '02, professor of Latin and Chairman of the Division of Ancient Languages, objected chiefly to the idea of initial three-year appointments for instructors, in response to questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APPOINTMENT STAND OF C. T. U. ATTACKED | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

Fernand Baldensperger, professor of Comparative Literature and Chairman of that Department, who served in English, French and German universities before he came here, preferred the system used at the University of London where "a special committee, including three 'powers,' authority, election, selection, is formed each time for any nomination of professors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APPOINTMENT STAND OF C. T. U. ATTACKED | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

...urge the administration to take appropriate action against the responsible persons to insure that incidents like this will not recur. Richard Sullivan, Chairman, Lowell House Committee. Henry E. Russell, Member of Permanent Class Committee. Cleveland Amory, Ex-President, The CRIMSON. John S. Stillman, President, Harvard Student Union. James Tobin, First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa. Michael P. Grace, President. The Independents. Mason Fernald, Member of the Student Council. Edward C. K. Read, President, The Lampoon. Theodore Holisworth, Jr., Member of the Student Council. Edmond L. Cherbonnier, President, Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/17/1939 | See Source »

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