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Word: senting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed the Ways & Means Committee's tax-appeasement bill, sent it to the Senate. It would 1) abolish the undistributed profits tax, substituting a flat 18% corporate income tax on earnings over $25,000; 2) permit a two-year carryover of profits & losses and remove the $2,000 loss limit for corporations; 3) permit corporations to revalue upward their securities for two years, to ease their excess profits taxes; 4) permit retirement of bonds and notes below par without taxation. > (In Appropriations Committee) rejected President Roosevelt's and Admiral Byrd's request for a $340,000 claiming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Passed a bill permitting interstate shipment of fight films, sent it to conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Passed the $122,624,410 State, Justice & Commerce appropriation bill, sent it to House conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Approved the conference report on the War Department's civil functions appropriation bill ($305,188,514), sent it to conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Project, not to believe that the Workers Alliance could dictate to him, not to cut his administrative cost allowance below 5%. He invited the committee to cross-question him, but when he finished, he got the silent treatment. Mr. Woodrum just said, "Thank you, Colonel, for your appearance," and sent the committee's bill to the printer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: For 1940 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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