Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Treasury officials, looking ahead, suspect that the day will come when a large part of the personal income tax will be replaced by transaction or value-added taxes. Coleman Andrews worries over the enormous machinery required for fair, efficient enforcement of the present law. He notes that 12 million taxpayers last year (and probably 15 million this year) sought help from his office in filling out their forms. Andrews says: "There is something wrong with any law that causes that many people to quit their jobs and spend a day trying to find out how to comply." Something is also...
Feeney told the editor, "I always try to be fair with everyone, but the CRIMSON has not been fair with me. The other day, some CRIMSON photographers took pictures of my building, and one of them was a Jew--and he admitted it ... Get out of here...
Signed: RRMcC. Colonel McCormick's real journalistic achievements were often lost in the tidal waves of vituperation that crashed around (but never engulfed) his tower fortress on North Michigan Avenue. In a 1936 poll of Washington correspondents, the Tribune was placed among the "least fair and reliable" newspapers in the U.S.; others denounced it as a "ceaseless drip of poison...
When Attorney General Herbert Brownell set up a committee in 1953 to study the nation's antitrust laws, he made it plain that Fair Trade pricing would be one of the key subjects. Last week, after one of the most comprehensive antitrust studies ever undertaken, the committee of 61 lawyers, professors and economists turned in its 394-page report. Chief recommendation: Fair Trade laws should be repealed...
...Fair Trade' pricing," said the report, "may enable distributors to extinguish price competition . . . 'Fair trade,' when used as a device for relieving distributors from the rigors of price competition, is at odds with the most elementary principles of a dynamic free-enterprise system."Congress should repeal the Miller-Tydings law, which exempts price-fixers of name-brand products from antitrust action, and the McGuire Act of 1952, which makes a minimum-price agreement signed by one retailer with a manufacturer binding on all retailers in a state. Said the committee: "As a result of local enabling...