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...drafting the revenue bill with advice from an imported Canadian expert (TIME, March 7). Scant hearings were held. The rank & file of the House membership were not consulted. The Treasury made no recommendation. The committee put the tax into its bill simply because it appeared to be the easiest and handiest method of raising cash...
...large power can get a long way in war nowadays without anyone being able to interfere to any extent because modern warfare means complete destruction of cities and their whole population. It would be the easiest thing in the world for a large air fleet to wipe out a great city in a few hours in a modern war. In fact, if the World War had lasted two weeks longer, there would have been a determined air attack on Berlin...
...Taxes, All week long the air about the Capitol buzzed with plans, suggestions, proposals and advice for taxing more money out of the country. Needs were estimated at from $500,000,000 to $1,250,000,000. The income tax was immediately turned to as the first and easiest source of additional revenue. Conservative Republicans favored an increased normal tax (now 1½, 3% and 5%), reduced exemptions (now $1,500 for single persons. $3,500 for married folk) and a general jumping of surtax rates. Senator Smoot favored an increase in the maximum surtax from 20% to 40%. "Progressive...
...magazine that he wants, Dr. Wells will soon be illustrating his lectures with lantern slides of drawings by Peter Arno, I. Klein, and Otto Soglow. At present Dr. Wells has some 30 odd cartoons which have been carefully selected to explain to his class various psychological reactions in the easiest and quickest manner possible...
Strict stipulation for membership in the "dude" expedition: "Guests must be healthy and they must be men of breeding and education. This will make them congenial. Men of culture are the easiest to get along with in wild country...