Word: council
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mattered not to the President that his Commerce Department's own Business Advisory Council had promulgated a tax revision program just like John Hanes's. What the President stuck for was the undistributed profits tax, a symbol to him of taxation-for-social control. Its aim is to force rich corporations to distribute earnings instead of keeping them in surplus. It also forces not-so-rich corporations to pay out, in dividends, earnings which they may need for capital expansion, or to pay debts, or as insurance against lean years. When Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance...
...mattered not to the President that his Commerce Department's own Business Advisory Council had promulgated a tax revision program just like John Hanes's. What the President stuck for was the undistributed profits tax, a symbol to him of taxation-for-social control. Its aim is to force rich corporations to distribute earnings instead of keeping them in surplus. It also forces not-so-rich corporations to pay out, in dividends, earnings which they may need for capital expansion, or to pay debts, or as insurance against lean years. When Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance...
Balloting for the Council will be held Thursday and Friday, May 25 and 26, when the Juniors will choose six of their classmates; and the Sophomores three from their class. The men who are elected will meet Monday, May 29, to choose eight additional undergraduates for the Council...
...Council will meet for the first time Wednesday, May 31, when it will elect its officers. Reports of the retiring officers will be read, and the Council will go through the formalities of beginning its term...
Included on the ballots will be the names of several Council members who have been nominated to serve for another year, Nominations can be made either by petitions signed by 30 students or by the Nominating Committee of the Council...