Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey noted one reason for the deficit: last year's $7.4 billion tax cut. Humphrey & Co. were still optimistic. With federal spending on the way down and national income booming upward, the Treasury men hope that the budget will balance on next June...
Giesler was encouraged in his suits by what happened last week to another Confidential imitator, Rave. After Humphrey Bogart filed a $1,000,000 suit for accusing him of misbehaving in Paris, Rave agreed to print a complete retraction in the issue coming out in August. Rave also got in trouble with a story about the married life of the Hollywood James Masons. Actor Mason slapped on a $1,199,000 suit, and last week won a retraction and a $1,000 settlement out of court. Rave was too broke* to pay the $1,000 damages in one lump...
...nation's history. Under the bill, much of the program would be financed by increasing the taxes against highway users, e.g., the federal gasoline tax would go up to 3? from the present 2?. The Administration (although it still prefers a bond issue) has, through Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, already approved the principle of increasing the user taxes. The Senate is still working on a highway program that would be paid for by outright federal appropriations...
FAST TAX WRITE-OFFS for new defense building will be sharply cut back if Treasury Secretary George Humphrey has his way. Humphrey says that the U.S. has handed out five-year write-offs for projects worth $30.4 billion since 1950, costing the Government $1 billion in taxes annually. At Humphrey's request, the Office of Defense Mobilization is reviewing its tax program to see how it can cut down on write-offs...
...adapted by Playwrights Sam and Bella Spewack, it became a hit on Broadway, and is still running in London and Australia. Now the fable about three Devil's Island convicts who put their illegal talents to work for an inept but honest businessman turns up in VistaVision, starring Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov...