Word: nonpartisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Complete overhauling of the Federal tax system, after study by a nonpartisan commission of Government and private experts. Recommended changes: 1) reduction or repeal of taxes on corporation income (which in a free market should be a just return for risks taken and jobs provided); 2) "a new (and better) undistributed profits tax" designed to keep corporations from hoarding money instead of putting it to productive use; 3) personal income taxes on a graduated scale, but never becoming so high as to prevent individuals from saving and investing their money; 4) a high - perhaps confiscatory -inheritance...
...author is James Burnham, assistant professor of philosophy at New York University, onetime co-editor of The New International, theoretical magazine of U.S. Trotskyists. He writes deliberately unemotional English with primer simplicity. The tone of his book is amoral, nonpartisan, scientific. The theory he expounds makes The Managerial Revolution as morbidly fascinating as a text book vivisection, possibly the most sensational book of political theory since The Revolution of Nihilism...
...Student Council has been aided by the library staff in selecting a nonpartisan bibliography on the war, representing the varied points of view of isolation, partial intervention, intervention, and alliance with Great Britain...
CAIRO--Hussein Sirry Pasha, former Minister of Commerce and Public Works and a well-known civil engineer, formed a new government tonight with himself as Prime Minister. Sirry, nonpartisan, will continue Eygpt's policy of loyal help to Britain...
...American Federation of Labor's supposedly nonpartisan, predominantly Republican executive council, meeting in Miami, sneered that Lewis support for any candidate would be "a kiss of death." Most of the councilmen distrust the President as much as Mr. Lewis does, but for different reasons...