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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American father and a Russian mother. For nearly 20 years she has been a slave, bought and sold among various Chinese families as necessity dictated. From Mukden, her presumable birthplace, where she was first placed in an orphanage, she has been carried over North and Central China to her present haven near the Burmese border. Undoubtedly, along with my own parents and all the population of unconquered China, she has endured the horrors of Japanese bombing raids. Ahead of her, even if China should win, is only anonymous drudgery; if taken by the Japanese she will fare no better than...
...present high surtax (up to 75% on $5,000,000) on upper-bracket personal incomes. Coupled with this was a plea to stop issuing tax-exempt securities.* Thus very rich citizens might be influenced to take normal business risks instead of buying Government bonds...
...study of the whole tax problem by a joint committee of the House Ways & Means and Appropriations and the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee members, with special attention to the present law which provides that corporation excess of capital losses can be deducted only to the extent of $2,000 plus capital gains...
...present time the team has very limited time for practice in the basement of Memorial Hall. It is hoped that if Riflery is recognized as a minor sport, the H. A. A. will arrange with the Department of Naval Science for more extensive practice time and better equipment...
...Present "facilities for taking care of those individual study problems that must inevitably arise in a University as large as Harvard are probably insufficient...