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Stanley S. Surrey, professor of Law, this week advocated lowering the tax burden on high income groups because "unfair" special favors granted by Congress to alleviate these burdens are undermining the present system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Income Taxes Are Too High for Rigid Enforcement, Surrey Claims | 3/15/1956 | See Source »

...this week's Collier's Surrey claimed that these upper-bracket rates are not strictly enforced. Congress, out of a desire to help those paying such 'fantastically high rates," is constantly creating ways for certain groups to escape from the very taxes it imposes, he asserted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Income Taxes Are Too High for Rigid Enforcement, Surrey Claims | 3/15/1956 | See Source »

Sullivan lives at 15 Surrey Street, in the shadow of Dunster House...

Author: By Ernest A. Ostro, | Title: The Son of the Dude | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...screen is 50 ft. wide and 25 ft. high, and the picture lasts 2½ hours with one intermission. They will also get a picture that, whatever its merits as mass entertainment, bears about as much relation to the Broadway Oklahoma! as a 1956 Cadillac does to the surrey with the fringe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 24, 1955 | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

After a quick inspection of his duck pond (pop. 37 mallards, three wooden ducks), Ike summoned a strange-looking vehicle that looked like a cross between a jeep and a surrey. Over its open top was a fringed canopy; the words "Ike" and "Mamie" were painted on the front fenders. The car, a little Crosley, was presented to Ike a year ago by an anonymous friend for use as a golf buggy. But it proved too big for golf, on a field test at Burning Tree, and was retired to the farm. Ike climbed aboard, was driven to another barn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Farmer in the Dell | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

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