Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honorable Harold Knutson, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, declares that one of the first items on the agenda of the special session of Congress will be income tax reductions. He, personally, will see to it. Furthermore, he has just received the report of a citizens advisory group, headed by Roswell Magill, which report advocates lower income taxes together with forty changes in the Federal Revenue Code. This is the report which Drew Pearson charged was prepared on Wall Street. He claimed that if its suggestions were adopted the income tax laws would be shot so full...
...second time since before the Virginia trek, the A eleven entered a scrimmage yesterday. . Blocking, not breakaway running, was the order of the day, as the coaches drilled linemen and backs in a grueling session designed to sharpen the timing of blocks before Saturday...
...nation's commodity and stock markets showed that they did not worry alone. The day after President Truman called a special session of Congress and stirred up talk of more commodity trading controls (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), all grain prices on the Chicago Board of Trade skittishly dropped the permissible limit. They dragged many other commodities down with them. The New York Stock Exchange also had its worst one-day break in a month. The Dow-Jones industrial average slipped 1.97 points to 182.53, losing all the gains it had made in two weeks. With profits at such reassuring highs...
...drive for a $4,000,000 tax cut notwithstanding the recommendation by Administration advisers that taxes be held where they are to help pay the bill for aid to Europe and curb inflation. "I hope it will be the first major piece of legislation passed at the special session," Knutson, head of the House Ways and Means Committee, said yesterday...
...November 25, the U.N. Assembly may shelve debate on the controversial big power veto, an authoritative source stated yesterday in New York. Assembly President Aranha of Brazil called on the 14-nation steering committee to meet today to discuss progress and methods of speeding conclusion of the current session...