Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...questioners Pat Harrison specified a 10% overall slash in this year's Federal expenses. Knowing well that fixed charges of some $2,300,000,000 (for debt interest, Social Security, tax refunds, revolving funds and the like) could not be touched to effect such a saving, Pat Harrison snorted: "I know that a lot of this emergency stuff could be cut to hell...
...week's end Bob Doughton joined Pat Harrison in a joint letter to Mr. Morgenthau which could be construed either as a goodwill gesture or as another, specific challenge. In tones of warmest welcome they invited the Secretary of the Treasury to make good, after reviewing the income tax returns that will come in March 15, on his promise to ask for reduction of taxes which retard Business (TIME, March...
...State repeal. Last week his latest protege, Governor Prentice Cooper, vetoed the Assembly's repealer. This deed may alter Mr. Cooper's political future, but it did not alter the legislators' minds. Crying, "We've got the liquor now: let's regulate and tax it!" they overrode Governor Cooper even as a Dry Assembly overrode Wet Patterson 30 years...
Tennessee did not vote back its bars. Its new law permits package trade only, for cash not credit,* with the wet-dry option still reserved to each county. Tax: 70? the gallon on whiskey. To Boss Crump's wet Shelby County the only difference will be that thirsty Memphians need no longer drive over the Mississippi River bridge to the nearest liquor store, a big, hugely profitable emporium on the Arkansas shore...
...profit, the Clinic has no funds for expansion; because the University budget has been reduced in all departments, no aid can be expected from that source; and the dream of an all-wise, beneficent alumnus has not yet materialized. Unpopular as it would doubtless be, a general tax on the student body appears to be the only practical solution; it would amount to only two dollars per student if levied on graduate men as well as the undergraduate body. No less pressing than the most urgent cavity, the problem cries for solution. A toothache to students, it is a headache...