Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...information ever left by a single man," they will soon be available in microfilm form at such widely separated centers of research (besides the Library of Congress) as the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Princeton University Library, University of California Libraries, the New York Public Library, University of Minnesota Library, and Duke University Library...
...Paul's Holman Municipal Airport, which lies in Ramsey County. In 1939 Ramsey County decided to slap a personal property tax on all of Northwest's planes, and sent it a bill for $16,913. Northwest objected, arguing: Northwest was already taxed on its planes by Minnesota and six other states, mainly on the mileage flown in each. Why should it pay a tax twice? Alarmed, the other 18 U.S. airlines joined Northwest in fighting...
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-to-4 decision, upheld the right of Minnesota to levy the full tax. The decision muddled the problem of airlines taxation even more. In the majority opinion, Justice Felix Frankfurter held that: 1) Minnesota had the right to levy the full tax because Northwest was incorporated there; 2) the right of other states to tax Northwest was a matter "not now before us." Although Justice Hugo Black concurred, he objected because the decision still left Northwest wide open to taxation by other states. Then he politely argued against "judicial formulation...
...clubs reported a 60% drop. Contemplating this, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Walter F.George predicted that the new tax, which Congress had hoped would bring in $90,000,000, will actually bring in less than the old 5% tax. He advocated that the tax be reduced to 15 or 20%. Minnesota's Harold Knutson had already tossed in the House hopper a resolution to lower...
...Dunn, 57, a big (235 lb.), easygoing citizen of Pelican Rapids (pop. 1,560), is a longtime member of Minnesota's Republican Old Guard. In his home province of Otter Tail County he farms 240 acres and runs a $100,000 fishing resort he built mostly with his own hands. In the state legislature he has risen in 18 years to be majority floor leader and chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee. So long as silo-tall Harold Stassen was on the scene in person, Dunn was a secondary figure. But when Stassen went...