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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed, after four weeks' haggling, a bill amending the Social Security Act: 1) to spare employes and employers $825,000,000 in taxes over the next three years by freezing the old-age payroll tax at 1% through 1942; 2) to limit the unemployment insurance payroll tax to the first $3,000 of earnings cutting off about $65,000,000 in taxes; 3) to liberalize old-age benefits by commencing payments in 1940 instead of 1942, and to allow benefits to persons becoming 65 in 1939; 4) to add 1,300,000 seamen, bank clerks and farm association members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...served a term (1929-31) in Federal prison on McNeil Island, Wash. for income tax evasion, divorced his wife in 1932 because she called him "ex-convict." His current girl: pretty, shapely, dark-haired Barbara Land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chance on the High Seas | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...fight, claiming that Indian liquors contained Vitamin B and made for healthy babies. This prohibitionists answered by declaring that drunkards were violent and that there was "no need to drink Vitamin B and beat your wife." But on financial grounds, wets were powerful. In many an Indian province liquor taxes account for 25% of total revenue. Liquor consumption has been increasing: tax in 1920 brought in $23,000,000; in 1928, $82,000,000; in 1938, $350,000,000. Bombay's revenue losses were estimated at $10,000,000 annually. To compensate for this, Treasury experts could offer only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Toddy and Taxes | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Italy, 1,500,000 in Germany. In the "more babies" campaign decreed last week the Government: 1) announced "motherhood" bonuses of from $53 to $80 for first-born and higher premiums for succeeding children; 2) doubled the penalties for abortion and increased those on obscene literature; 3) slapped a tax on bachelors and childless families; 4) increased the tax on alcohol to pay for the campaign. This year's appropriation to pay for the "Code of the French Family" was 9,000,000,000 francs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Record | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...Calais, France, a U. S. tourist, miffed when French customs agents warned her that the tax-free time limit on her $6,669 Cadillac had nearly expired and that she would have to take it out of the country or pay a heavy duty, embarked with it for England. At Dover customs officials barred the car's entry. Deeply miffed, she abandoned her Cadillac, had it dumped into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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