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Just a few lines to let you know I am well fed up with your line of Smart Aleck stuff. Your article on Great Britain [King George VI] in the May 15 issue is about as raw, fresh, uncalled for and unfriendly as anything I've read...
...stump of the undistributed profits tax (most publicized of all the irritating kittens it was cut last year from 7%-27,% to 0%-21/2%. That action angered Franklin Roosevelt so that he refused to sign the bill, let it become a law without his signature...
Franklin Roosevelt did not exactly reverse himself on his Tax Program last week (see col. 3). He simply surrendered the ball to his opposed advisers on the fourth down to let them see what they could do with it. By his speech to the Retailers week before he was still committed personally to more spending and the cart-before-the-horse theory that the New Deal would work economically when an 80-billion dollar income is achieved, a defense notably limned by Cartoonist Burt K. Thomas in the Detroit News...
...Administration leaders on Capitol Hill let it be known that they would like Congress to adjourn by July 15, a date chosen because by then Mr. Roosevelt will have entertained the King & Queen in Washington and in Hyde Park and returned from his annual cross-country survey "to see what the nation is thinking." Until July 15 (at least) Congress will simmer in Washington over: 1) Neutrality legislation, which had seemed moribund until Secretary Hull pleaded last week for amendments to allow sale of arms to (good) nations at war, 2) a tax bill, 3) Social Security. Mr. Roosevelt could...
...tutoring school situation we see a threat to the liberty of the indi- vidual student at Harvard," the editorial concludes. "We conceive that liberty to be one of the factors which raises Harvard high above the other training grounds of the world. Let us protect that liberty...