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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bulky, sad-eyed, drawling Judge Vinson, 53, is a first-rate authority on the U.S. tax laws, which he can quote, provision by provision, with all the "hereinafters" properly included, in a dazzling display of mnemonics. As a Kentucky Congressman for 14 years, he rose so fast as to threaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Home Front Cabinet | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

Safeguards. To prevent war-brought windfalls, the Senate forgave each income-tax payer his obligation on one year's income but required him to pay on either 1942 or 1943 incomes, whichever is higher. A second windfall provision is based on the proposition that if a citizen is making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victory for Marshal Ruml | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

Speakers roundly walloped radio chains which give free time to the "vociferous liberals" of the Federal Council of Churches but, said the speakers, deny it to conservatives. The Baptist Watchman-Examiner's editor, Dr. John W. Bradbury, attacked "the American Embassy to the Vatican," called for united action "to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Conservatives | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

This week Congressmen threatened to sabotage Prentiss Brown's new program. But Brown was confident that he would succeed. First move will be to get the RFC to pay the subsidies. Second move will be to carry the fight to Congress itself and get outright appropriations. Prentiss Brown pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: Salvation by Subsidy | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

"The reasons for this provision," Paul H. Buck, Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences stated in commenting upon the plan, "are twofold--the reduction of the Harvard staff and student body by reason of calls to war service, and the increasing demands on the time of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY CONTROLS RADCLIFFE COURSES | 4/21/1943 | See Source »

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