Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State of the Union message yesterday, Truman asked Congress to cut income taxes of both rich and poor by $40 per person, with an additional $40 reduction for each dependent. The estimated revenue loss of three billion dollars would be offset by increased levies on corporations...
Slichter's view was echoed by Gottfried Haberler, professor of Economics, who said the proposal "was not a very good idea." People who are too poor to pay taxes would suffer most, he explained, since they would not receive the benefits of the $40 cut, while still suffering from the higher cost of living...
Devoted Hope fans will be sickened, and all others put to sleep, after ten minutes of this witches' brew of poor vaudeville and worse dialogue. For the womenfolk, der Bingle fights his way gamely through two or three songs whose only distinction lies in the fact that they are all composed of the same four notes...
...Bishop's Wife" is minor whimsy. It shows how Dudley enables the bishop to get enough money to build a cathedral. It then shows how Dudley persuades both the bishop and an unpleasant donor that the money could be more wisely used if it were spent to help the poor and the suffering. It then shows how Dudley saves the bishop's marriage from a sorry fate. And all the time, it maintains a nice comical relationship between Dudley, the bishop, and the bishop's wife...
Early, pre-season snows in northern New England and Canada plus poor ski-ing conditions around Cambridge before vacation proved a handicap to the ski team and skidded them into sixth place among ten competitors at the annual intercollegiate meet at Lake Placid over New Years...