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...assessment was the handiwork of Alfred L. Kirby, professional revenue bloodhound for taxing bodies. In Hillsborough's employ, Kirby found that Mrs. Cromwell had never made a return on her intangible property, legally due ever since she was 21. She has paid some $20,000 annually on her Duke farms, her buildings, her personal property. Discoverer Kirby decided that she was also taxable not only for stocks, bonds, etc. held in her name but also as a trustee for the Duke Endowment Fund, a New Jersey trust. Stopped by law from snuffing back more than two years, the taxers...
...businessmen a rough idea of just how big (by & large not very) their next year's taxes may be. But many businessmen read it just for the exercise. They sensed that no taxes might be paid under its present provisions at all. Reason: Congress has already marked its handiwork "temporary," is reconciled to the necessity of doing the whole job over again next session...
Last week, in Manhattan, a new menace had risen up to tease the Guild, a rival newsmen's union, the American News paper Writers Association. Organized one week after the Guild convention adjourned, A. N. W A. was the handiwork of Red-hating William Leonard Laurence, able science editor of the New York Times. Armed with a charter from A. F. of L. (which the Guild left to join C. I. O. in 1937), Rebel Laurence promptly put in a claim with Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger to have his union designated sole bargaining agent for Times editorial workers...
Then came the mild, ever-so-gentle amendments of Mrs. Mary Teresa Norton of Jersey City, N. J., buxom chairlady of the House Labor Committee. Mrs. Norton's amendments, handiwork of New Dealers, were so slight as to be imperceptible. The House jumped on the Norton amendments ravenously. So infectious was the fun that New Dealers and Republicans joined in, soon inflated the Norton bill into a balloony caricature of a law. So many workers were exempt that Representative Frank Hook of Ironwood, Mich, heckled: "You have exempted everybody but the unemployed . . . might as well do that...
...uniting conference at Kansas City (TIME, May 8, 1939, et seq.) slapped things together with a minimum of debate. Looking on their handiwork after a year's lapse, Methodists made minor adjustments, no major changes. By the time the conference adjourned this week...