Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself be overridden when a majority of the committee moved to down this new tax from the 42% high set by the House to 4%. But when the majority next threatened to do away with the tax altogether, Pat Harrison tossed out a counter-threat to write a minority report, take the fight to the Senate floor. Result was a compromise on a 7% undistributed profits tax (except for banks, trust companies, insurance companies and certain corporations). Bargains were also driven...
...increase in revenue, which the House's untried taxes did not; 2) limited the undistributed profits tax to a comparatively harmless size; 3) preserved the semblance of the President's tax proposals. But Chairman Harrison's troubles were not over. The Treasury came back with a report that his compromise would yield only $629,000,000 revenue the first year, $529,000,000 thereafter. Pat Harrison wearily asked the Treasury to try figuring out a bigger yield from the same taxes...
...understand that the tribunal has to-day finished its public sittings and will therefore proceed at once to consider its report. Before, however, the report is known and without any regard to what it may contain, I feel it is my duty, for reasons I will state, to send you my resignation from the Government...
...names of the Committee were not made public at Mr. Conant's office, but it is understood that they will make a report early in the Fall after the Tercentenary Celebration. A report from such a committee is handed direct to the President, and no action need necessarily be forthcoming. If anything is done on the matter, Mr. Conant would have the initiative and would submit recommendations to the Faculty Council which would have the final say on the matter...
...Conant has asked a small group of faculty members to look into the present set-up of the tutorial system and to make a confidential report on possible modifications which might be made on the system it was learned yesterday at University Hall...