Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Please refer to your issue of Sept. 9, p. 52 in the column on Education. Mr. Crabtree (Secretary of the National Education Association) complains that chain stores and mail order houses pick up profits in villages which are taxed at the headquarters in a far away place. We wish Mr. Crabtree would explain just how this is done, as profits are taxed under the Federal Income Tax law and I supposed that the taxes went to Washington whether the owners of a business lived in the village where it is conducted or in a large city far away. Perhaps...
...Caraway explained the purpose of his resolution: "To expose the fortunetellers and astrologers* who maintain associations here at the expense of gullible men and women back in the States." He also hoped to disclose "who it is that finances the Southern Tariff Association, the Muscle Shoals lobby, the Estates Tax lobby, the present Tariff lobby, Mr. Joseph R. Grundy...
...Congress: He is about as regular in his votes as a Democrat can be. He voted for tax reduction and flood control in 1928, for the Jones law and the 15 cruiser bill in 1929. He voted in series for the three farm relief bills in recent sessions, for radio control, for the Boulder Dam, against reapportionment. He is now fighting the tariff bill...
Last May, Mohammedan villagers in the Tao-chow-ting district of Kansu province rebelled against omnivorous Chinese tax-gatherers, rioted, killed 700 Chinese women and children...
...French system of levying on U. S. films will be worked out and applied, but it is understood that this will be simply a straight import tax with no direct subsidy feature...