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Word: persisting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other areas the President thought worth scouting for more revenue: a few tax-exempt educational and charitable organizations which persist in "glaring abuses" of the exemptions, life insurance companies which "have unintentionally been relieved of income taxes since 1946," and short-lived Hollywood corporations de signed to dodge paying big taxes. He wanted to trim corporation income taxes in the bracket between $25,000 and $50,000 a year, proposed a "moderate" tax increase on any profits that jutted beyond the $50,000 level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Devil's Dues | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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