Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the House voted 302-98 to repeal the "pink slip" publicity provision of the Revenue Act of 1934. Two days later the Senate Finance Committee endorsed the House repealer. Meantime with many a snort & groan, millions of U. S. citizens filled out pink slips noting the highlights of their incomes and tax payments, filed them along with their income tax returns. "This is for the snooper," "Under protest!", "To whom it does not concern" and less printable jibes were written on the slips by taxpayers. At least one lawyer, declaring the "pink slip" law unconstitutional, filed suit...
Chances were that no such action would be necessary. Nose-counters last week found the Senate strongly in favor of repealing the publicity clause. That the Senate would be slow to act was of small consequence, the Treasury having already announced that it could not possibly have the "pink slip" information ready for public inspection before summer...
...most anxious for the "pink slip" law's repeal last week was one whom, as a taxpayer, it could not embarrass. Anyone may turn to a World Almanac, learn that the U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue gets $10,000 a year. But Commissioner Guy Tresillian Helvering knows that the job of compiling the pink slips would put a tremendous extra burden on his Bureau, cost the Government some...
Seven hours before the deadline for filing income tax returns last week, Commissioner Helvering called in person to receive President Roosevelt's return and pink slip. He had good news for the President. Tax receipts from all sources were up $393,000,000 from the same date last year. For the first half of March, income tax receipts were $191,358,909, up about 29% from last year...
Despite a thorough-going and intensive research into the arithmetic side of the Teutonic Plague today, no change could be discovered in the total number of victims. Five cured men left the portals of Stillman with blithesome tread. Five others, blushing a suspicious pink in neatly distributed spots, took their places. The result was a standstill...