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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selling a loaf of bread. Thus a Federal income tax paid by farmer, grain elevator, flour mill, railroad, flour trucker, baking company and retail distributor counted as seven taxes. Even after multiplication, it was shown that only 13 of the 58 taxes were Federal. The rest were state, county, local or municipal.* Of the 16 kinds of taxes, only three were Federal: On income, on capital stock and on excess profits. These three, the only ones which Alf Landon could possibly reduce if he went to the White House, were not hidden but direct taxes, which he favors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxes & Truth | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Samples: Local real-estate tax, county real-estate tax, municipal real-estate tax, school district real-estate tax, local personal property tax, county personal property tax, municipal personal property tax, state income tax, motor license tax, auto truck state license tax, occupation tax, tax on grain storage, electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxes & Truth | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Joseph Proudhon who died in 1865 had only a "Newgate Frill" (fringe of whiskers) around his placid countenance. The last of the internationally great Anarchist thinkers, Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin, who was the perfect prototype of "Bearded Anarchist", expired peacefully near Moscow in 1921. Not international thinkers but intensely local Barcelona doers by "direct action" are Newshawk Duranty's new news subjects. Anarchist Durruti goes so far as to scoff contemptuously at the Spanish Government, friendly though it is to Barcelona, charging that in the Cabinet there are ministers who secretly want Generalissimo Franco to take Madrid because they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Anarchism Without Beards | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Publisher McDonald hopes to steal readers on weekdays from the News (circ. 36,000), on Sundays from the Times (circ. 36,300). He declares that Chattanooga is tired of the radical policies of the News, whose Editor George Fort Milton (The Age of Hate) is notably "agin" the local power company. The Free Press is as ardently pro-Landon as the nearby Knoxville Journal, which three months ago got out of receivership with the help of Republican money. According to Publisher McDonald, he owes only $60,000 for the modern presses and equipment he has installed. Delivery of the enlarged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chattanooga's Third | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...three desks sat Jenkintown's (Pa.) Edward V. Sherry, Chicago's local prodigies Norman Saksvig and Edith Kohn. At another sat Cortez W. Peters, a 220-lb. Washington, D. C. Negro, wearing a brown silk polo shirt, a white rag bound around his brow. At a fifth desk, a special one with built-in knee pads to protect his shaking knees, sat sleek, handsome, 33-year-old Albert Tangora, instructor in Manhattan's Radio City School of Business Practice & Speech. He wore a green eyeshade and his manicured fingers raced to keep the title he won year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Alchemy of Time | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

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