Word: engels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressman Albert Engel of Michigan, taking one look at this onslaught on the U.S. Treasury, another look at the economically bankrupt, politically epileptic country of Greece, and another look at Britain, uttered the first angry yelp. Why, Engel demanded, should the U.S. pull "Britain's fat out of the fire...
Divergent opinions were voiced by Democratic leader Rayburn, who said the proposed $6,000,000,000 slash would help push reluctant millions of people abroad "into the arms of Communism," and Rep. Engel (R-Mich), chairman of the Army appropriations subcommittee, who declared that if General Eisenhower and Admiral Nimitz cannot run the army and Navy efficiently on less money they "ought to stop aside and give someone else a chance...
...reassurance. All week long the Democrats had been snickering as Republicans lambasted each other over the 20% income-tax cut promised by bullheaded Harold Knutson during the campaign. Knutson had tried to bulldoze his Ways and Means Committee into endorsing his bill, only to have Michigan's Albert Engel rebel. Engel's plan: double exemptions to help the low-income group. The fracas had ruffled the G.O.P. leadership itself when Illinois' Leo Allen, Chairman of the Rules Committee, threw in a plan of his own. Allen would give the little taxpayer a 20% cut, the big fellow...
...House paid little attention to the doings in the Senate; its members were busy in a dozen different directions. New Jersey's J. Parnell Thomas promised mysterious but piping-hot revelations from his Committee on Un-American Activities. Michigan's Albert J. Engel disagreed with his Republican colleague, Harold Knutson, on a straight 20% slash in income taxes, complaining "that doesn't help the little fellow much." Mississippi's John Rankin, a junior Bilbo, dramatically unrolled a yards-long petition bearing thousands of signatures, inviting a witch hunt for subversives in the movie industry. That would...
...result in terms of income. Such anomalous consequences, utterly contradictory to the general principle of progressive taxes, can be avoided either by reducing the tax burden via higher exemptions, or by providing for larger percentage tax reductions in the lower brackets. The former course has been advocated by Representative Engel, who urged that exemptions be doubled. As yet, no Congressman has argued for a graduated cut, but its political advantages are so obvious and its economic implications so easily defensible that someone is certain to crop up with the idea before the argument becomes much warmer. With...