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...Ashtead, Surrey, England...
...years, Assistant Treasury Secretary Stanley S. Surrey has damned the "provisions favoring special groups or special individuals that run counter to our notions of tax fairness." Commissioner of Internal Revenue Mortimer Caplin has long yearned to cut taxes from 91% to 65% in the highest brackets, and from 20% to 10% in the lowest brackets, chinking loopholes to stanch the loss. Walter Heller, the President's chief economic adviser, would cut the maximum rate to 60%, reduce the lowest rates from 20% to 14%. All three oppose what Heller calls "upsidedown subsidies," such as oil and mining depletion allowances...
...only that he had "no plans to leave right now." It has been customary for faculty members rumored for posts in Washington to say nothing themselves to the press. However, nearly all such speculations--including reports about McGeorge Bundy, David E. Bell, Archibald Cox '34, and Stanley S. Surrey--have eventually become official appointments...
Kennedy recently named Surrey, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. A tax expert, Surrey served as Treasury Department tax counsel from 1942-44. Also, Barbara R. Berman, Instructor in Economics, has joined the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers...
...Bell (Budget Director), Law Professor Archibald Cox (Solicitor General), and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences McGeorge Bundy (Special Assistant for National Security Affairs). Four more are reportedly to be named to still unassigned jobs: Professors Abram Chayes, John K. Galbraith, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Stanley Surrey. If conservative Harvard-men shudder at the rumor that New Deal-ish Historian Schlesinger may wind up as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, they try to balance the notion with the firmer rumor that Liberal Economist (The Affluent Society) Galbraith may be sent way off to India as U.S. Ambassador...