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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outlining a postwar tax plan designed to relieve pressure on small businessmen and to achieve maximum employment, John Lintner of the Business School addressed a forum on "Taxation and the National Income" held in the Lowell House Junior Common Room last night under the auspices of the Conservative League. Other speakers were Hans H. L. Staehle, visiting lecturer on Economics, and Talcott Parsons, professor of Sociology...
...maximum length above the knee that shorts may be worn without a cost in two inches...
...Dear, Quiet Please." The great meeting, so long awaited, was real at last. Moscow fired its maximum salute of 24 salvos from 324 guns; Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Harry Truman issued resounding statements. TIME Correspondent William Walton, who reached Torgau not long after the first meeting, reported the hesitant speech of a Red Army lieutenant, who, rising in the midst of a joyful hubbub, said...
...both began showing signs of nervousness as the jury stayed out, hour after hour. And when the court finally read the verdict, Joe Fay and James Bove looked pale and sick. The verdict: guilty of extortion and conspiracy; maximum possible penalty: 18 years in prison...
...Marine Division hospital was built low into the bulldozed hillside to afford maximum protection from Jap mortar and artillery fire. It consisted of two long dark green tents plus two operating rooms about 10 by 20 ft. which the Japs had built as concrete rainwater cisterns. The air inside was stuffy with stale cigaret smoke mingled with the smells of dirt and blood and sweat. But the rawboned Division surgeon, Commander Richard Silvis, was very proud of his operating rooms...