Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Decrying the land grabbing policies of the University, Representative John J. Foley of Cambridge last night urged that 10 per cent of the prevailing tax rate believed as a service charge on College dormitories. He was speaking in Brooks House under the auspices of the Student Union...
...interest is only in Cambridge," said Foley when questioned as to the universal purport of what he said. He showed figures proving that one third of the city property was tax exempt and 75 per cent of this was Harvard's. "If all of this property were taxable," said he, "the city tax rate would be down 15 dollars...
Foley's proposal, which would take from universities, religious and scientific institutions "ten percent of the amount of the tax which would be payable on such property if subject to taxation," was strongly attacked last week by representatives of many schools and colleges, including Henry L. Shattuck...
...Southern, big utility holding company, is willing to change the method of figuring power rates to conform with the President's insistence that utilities property valuations should be based on (1 cost of production, 2 cost of reproduction, 3 what was prudently and honestly invested, 4 estimates of tax experts, 5 the cost-plus plan...
...conclusion, is it strange that a local legislator should introduce a bill to tax college property, when such an organization as the Harvard Student Union is allowed to exist while promoting such antagonism to local public officials? Henry E. Weiss...