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...affairs did not preclude income tax reductions. Hoping to make new witholding rates effective on May 1-even if a presidential veto had to be overridden to do it -the Senate plunged into debate on its bill to slash taxes by $4.8 billion. A handful of Democrats tried to stall the Republican timetable. Wyoming's Joe O'Mahoney proposed an amendment to restore taxes on excess profits. Arkansas' J. William Fulbright and South Carolina's Burnet Maybank, both irked because the House Agriculture Committee had killed 18 bills to repeal punitive taxes on oleomargarine, tried...
Also, Christopher Holabird, Robert Andrew Klein, Frederick Francis Lamont, Jr., Henry Lee, Jr., Joseph Anthony Lewis, Robert Stanley Leventhal, Charles Lipton, William Kennedy Boone Middendorf, William Lawrence Salton- stall, Charles Howard Sammond, Jr., Gerald Sanford Spear, Harold Samuel Spear, Arthur Frederick Stake, Edward Webster Dann Stevens...
...still arguing about what to do with the one Communist Senator (Leader Luis Carlos Prestes) and 16 Deputies who still held office. A bill to cancel the Communists' mandates recently passed the Senate. Last fortnight, it got out of a House committee, whereupon the Communists tried to stall it by proposing no less than 320 amendments. This week, on the floor, they were ready with another tried & true parliamentary technique-the filibuster...
...ancient Negro in a battered porkpie hat used to lead visitors to a special stall at Faraway Farm, Ky. and say proudly: "An' heah, ladies an' gen'men, is Man o' War hisself. . . . He weigh 13 hunnert an' seventy-fi' pounds. I say, come heah...
Unable to compete on this favored level, undergraduates must rely on the circulation desk to supply those books not included on reading room shelves. With overflowing stalls and misplaced books defeating an already poor circulation system, well over forty percent of the books requested cannot be delivered. A more effective method for recalling stall caches and the enforcement of stack regulations regarding misplaced texts is necessary if Widener hopes to give undergraduates any degree of satisfaction...