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...House the uproar about Taxes was more lively than the Senate's, more likely to have reasonably prompt consequences. Most pertinent words on the subject in which U. S. business was most interested came from Chairman Fred M. Vinson of the Ways & Means Subcommittee on Taxation, which had already tentatively approved exempting all corporation incomes of $5,000 or less from the undistributed profits tax. Chairman Vinson outlined three schemes being considered by the committee: 1) grading the exemptions upwards to include corporations whose incomes are between $5,000 and $50,000; 2) permitting the carryover of operating losses...
...coercion is practiced by these factories are in some cases subtle and hidden and in others they are brutally frank. . . . When and if a dealer fails to accede ... it is generally insinuated to him that if he did business with a certain finance company, perhaps he would get more prompt delivery. . . . Sometimes a direct threat of cancellation of his franchise is used...
That the Baltimore resolution was merely the first gun in a bombardment from the whole U. S. labor front was indicated by prompt applause from both of U. S. Labor's bitterly warring factions. President William Green of A. F. of L. said it "fairly represented the attitude of American labor." President Francis J. Gorman of C. I. O.'s United Textile Workers "reminded" the Windsors that Efficiency Expert Bedaux "made his money from the sweat of the textile workers...
...prompt action wrecked plans for a revolt," declared General Nogues, who tells the puppet Sultan of Morocco what to do. "Our troops will stay in the Medina as long as necessary. The French Government unanimously supports what I have done and all France is behind...
Already three weeks, ahead of last year's schedule on Senior pictures, the Album committee is anxious to maintain the commanding lead that the House men have made possible by their prompt appointments...