Word: patman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress is about to consider the Patman Chain Store Tax bill, which would exterminate the big chains. Chief reason the chains fear the bill may become law is that no less than 22 States have already imposed chain taxes-and in a far-reaching decision, Louisiana's was upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court. Last week, chain store men found solace in Pennsylvania, whose graduated tax ranging up to $500 per store has been one of the stiffest yet imposed. Because Pennsylvania's Constitution requires that all taxes must be uniform, Dauphin County Court declared it invalid...
...since 1932, when Representative Wright Patman attacked Andrew Mellon, has such a resolution been seen in Congress. Not since the Senate voted that President Coolidge should fire Secretary of the Navy Denby for his part in the oil scandals has one been adopted. Unlike Secretary Denby, who resigned, Miss Perkins, who knew she would not be impeached, welcomed a showdown. She repeated what she and her colleagues have said all along: that the only ground on which Harry Bridges might be deported is that he belongs to the Communist Party, which he denies and which has not been established...
Representative Wright Patman (Tues. 7:30 p. m. NBC-Red) defends his chain-store tax bill...
Before the U. S. House of Representatives last week was the Patman anti-chainstore tax bill-so stringent it would kill all interstate chains. The theory of chain-store taxing was thus approaching its major test, and propaganda against it sprouted on every side under the prodding of A. & P. Pressagents Carl Byoir & Co. Most novel prod last week was an exposition of how anti-chain agitation sometimes boomerangs against the wholesalers and independent stores by resulting in increased public recognition of chain's low prices...
What else Congress might do to or for business was equally conjectural. First on the House list was the Patman chain-store tax bill, designed to put interstate chains out of business. Other dire legislation may come from the monopoly hearings to be resumed next week. On the plus side, business anticipates juicy returns from the national defense program. And the railroads, pleading on bonded knees for legislative aid, seem fairly sure...