Word: clauses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressures; future foreign commitments would probably knock all budget plans into a cocked hat. But tax reduction was a political inflammable, and dangerous to tamper with. Truman's veto of the tax bill might singe his political fingers. Asked Manhattan's Daily News: "Will Truman shoot Santa Claus...
Miracle on 34th Street (20th Century-Fox) is brought about by a well-beavered, somewhat pixillated old gentleman (Edmund Gwenn) who calls himself Kris Kringle and isn't kidding. So far as he is concerned, he is the original, the one & only Santa Claus. As such, he is well pleased to take the throne in R. H. Macy & Co.'s toy department. His employer (Maureen O'Hara) regards him as a harmless old lunatic and her grimly progressive little girl (Natalie Wood) is sure he is an outright fraud. Kris stakes his earthly failure or success...
...each item of good news, Liberals slapped their desks and Mackenzie King beamed more broadly. But Abbott, like Santa Claus pointing to a bag stuffed with presents, kept his audience waiting for long minutes before he loosened the drawstrings and displayed his prize package: a new schedule of income-tax rates under which "the average amount of tax will be reduced by about 29%. . . . The reduction . . . is as much as 54% in the bottom bracket, but is limited to about 6% or 7% in the top brackets." Half of the relief will apply on 1947 incomes, since reductions go into...
There was nothing else so exciting in Abbott's Santa Claus pack. The rest of the budget contained nothing of note but the promise that the excess profits tax would end Dec. 31. All the excise and nuisance taxes were still there. Cigarets-not even figured in the cost of living-were still taxed at 21?: a pack, about $75 a year for the average smoker. But the immense popularity of income-tax cuts in every bracket was enough to give the Liberals a new hero...
Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg had fought with Rommel in Africa, lost his left arm and two fingers of his right hand there. But he could still do staff work. Above all, he could still carry a briefcase. On July 20, 1944, he carried a briefcase into a conference at the Führer's field headquarters in East Prussia. He put it down close to the Führer-with a powerful little bomb inside...