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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Present corporation income taxes would be repealed and for them substituted a new corporate income tax based on the proportion of a firm's income which it fails to distribute as dividends. Two scales of tax are proposed. A corporation whose net income is less than $10,000 would be taxed from 1% if it retained 10% or less of its net income to 29.7% if it retained 70.3%. About 45% of its net income could be retained at a tax of 16%, the present average corporation tax. A corporation whose net income exceeds $10,000 would be taxed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Target | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...stands true to every treaty that it signed voluntarily and as an equal. . . . I feel that God's grace is once again upon us, and in this hour we sink on our knees and ask the Almighty to give us His blessings and give us strength to stand firm in the struggle for freedom. ... So may God help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: May God Help Us! | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...last week's major winners suggested that sweepstakes are currently attracting a more substantial but less colorful clientele. Miss Martha Wellington, secretary to the advertising manager of The New Yorker, Mrs. Fannie Lebowitz of Albany, N. Y., a 71-year-old Salem, Mass, bachelor named Amos Strout, a firm of two Lynn, Mass, telephone operators, and a Hollywood billing clerk each won $150,000 with tickets on Reynoldstown. Mrs. Lebowitz said she planned to "make everybody happy." The rest said nothing and Secretary Wellington even ducked photographers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Aintree | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...Lefier attachment is backed by a syndicate which includes Manhattan's famed banking firm of Lehman Brothers and Milton Erlanger of Erlanger Mills (B. V. D.'s). They sent a small, vociferous textile man named George Fisher to Paris where he acquired U. S. rights from Socièté de Construction et d'Appareillage Scientifique pour le Tricotage et le Tissage, otherwise known as "Socast." U. S. sales plans are to be formulated this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lefier Robot | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Prizewinning artist was Noble Foster Hoggson (1888), a dapper, peppery little gentleman of 71, member of the building firm of Hoggson Bros, which has in the past 45 years erected over 2,000 bank buildings throughout the U. S. Newshawks found Artist Hoggson in the club bar, more than willing to talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Yalemen | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

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