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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Winsloe was alive and well the last time her friends here heard from her, which was less than a month ago. She lives in Munich, not in London. She has been married once to Baron Ludwig Hatvany who lives in Budapest. She was divorced from him twelve years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...discuss the Commission's investigation to ascertain whether radio broadcasting is a monopoly; Idaho's Senator William Borah, to discuss his bill to enforce anti-trust laws through Federal licensing of corporations. ¶ Presidential plans: a ten-day fishing trip starting this week; a two-month cruise along the west coast of South America next summer "if possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Visitor | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Conference. Byrnes Committee report was issued at precisely the moment when this recommendation was sure to have maximum effect. House & Senate committees-the latter headed by Senator Pat Harrison, whom Senator Byrnes is supposed to have persuaded to vote for the Reorganization Bill last month-had been deadlocked over the tax bill for a week. Cause of the deadlock: Pat Harrison's Senate Committee was adamant about eliminating the undistributed profits tax entirely, modifying capital gains levies almost out of sight; Bob Doughton's House Committee was equally adamant about saving the Administration's face by preserving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxes | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...years. The Revenue Bill passed by the House last March imposed: 1) 16% levies on all corporation profits, a 4% surtax on profits undistributed in dividends; 2) levies on capital gains by taxing all of such gains only when made by the sale of assets held less than 13 months, 40% of gains made by selling assets held longer than five years. The Revenue Bill passed by the Senate last month called for: 1) a flat 18% on all corporate profits; 2) further modification of capital gains taxes by lowering not the amount of taxable gains but the tax rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxes | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...strands of wire, wear out quickly. If equipped with barbs, as most of them are, they occasionally injure animals severely. Electric fences can be put up at about a third the cost of the old-type fence and the operating expense is negligible-usually not more than 18? a month. The better fences give short intermittent shocks, so that animals will not "freeze" to the wire, as they might if the current were strong & steady. Once shocked, most animals will stay away from the wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Hot Wire | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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