Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amos 'n' Andy started it last September when they left NBC and sold their show to CBS for $2,000,000. The Bureau of Internal Revenue examined this complicated deal and agreed that the $2,000,000 was subject to a capital-gains tax (25%) instead of personal income...
...Amusement Enterprises, Inc. (Comedian Benny's corporate entity), the Bureau of Internal Revenue ruling meant that the $1,356,000 due Benny from CBS as 60% stockholder was subject to a whopping $1,030,000 in personal income taxes. Until he got the dire word, professional skinflint Benny had hoped (on advice of counsel) that he would have to pay only $300,000 in capital-gains taxes...
...week starting Friday, Jan. 7. Times are E.S.T., subject to change...
...that the Council had no right to close the meeting, and thereby to withhold information from the student body. The Council constitution says that it "shall issue complete reports covering the business of all meetings" except "when two thirds of a quorum feel that publication of information concerning a subject will be detrimental to the best interests of the College as a whole." It is hard to see how it would have been "detrimental to the best interests of the College as a whole" if the student body had been given a clear idea of why Fisher was impeached...
...Council must get rid of the idea that it can suppress information whenever it feels like it. The Council has used the same technique in the past, with equal lack of justification if not with equally flagrant results. Only very rarely does the Council deal with a subject about which information "will be detrimental to the best interests of the College as a whole.' And only then is it justifiable for the Council to close its meetings...