Word: paid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge perpetual reserve of tax-exempt bonds could not exist side by side. Those who earn their livelihood from Government should bear the same tax burden as those who earn their livelihood in private employment." The President reminded Congress that unless it acts before March 15. salaries paid by quasi-public bodies like the Port of New York Authority will, by last year's decision of the Supreme Court, be subject to Federal income tax retroactively for three years. He urged a simple act (instead of a Constitutional Amendment) to end all exemptions, but not retroactively, and sent Under...
...tried an experiment, offered its smokehouse employes a guaranteed annual wage to ease the shock of layoffs, the strain of rushes. Since then the company has made industrial history with a "straight-time" annual wage plan, under which workers in Hormel's big main plant at Austin are paid a stated wage for a stated amount of work, regardless of the time it takes them...
Last week, with his usual tartness, SEC Chairman William O. Douglas took a fling at directors in general and McKesson & Robbins directors in particular. Plumping for responsible paid directors who would give real attention to their jobs, he urged U. S. corporations to go out and find men who would represent stockholders rather than management or banks. Although there might be plenty of practical problems in staffing directorates with paid "outsiders" (not part of the management) who had the time to know intimately the business they directed, Mr. Douglas said pertinently...
...Corporations can and should take steps to place upon their boards working directors who are adequately compensated, and the responsibilities of those directors should be made commensurate with their trust. . . . The paid director, familiar with the affairs of his company, could not live in peaceful and happy ignorance, oblivious to the fact that warehouses and inventories which his company owns are figments of a criminal imagination...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...