Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nominal Tax Per Capita...
...present plan is that of levying a tax of $6 on the Juniors, and $3 on both the Sophomores and Freshmen--for all men who intend rooming in the Yard their Senior Year, the sum to be charged on the term bill of next January. This arrangement is least convenient perhaps for Freshmen, for probably only a few have as yet decided to room in the Yard their Senior Year. However, with more rooms made thus still more attractive it is logical that most of the class will live there its Senior year, since the popularity of the Yard...
...people's representatives have bestirred themselves. But last week, of the 113,014 Federal employes in Washington, he alone made practically all the news. Renewing his contact with the electorate by radio, addressing Congress for the first time on Recession, communicating unconventionally with the House & Senate tax committees, greeting Pan America, appointing a new Red Cross head, Franklin Roosevelt showed a brilliant dash of the old form (see following columns...
Unabated, the next day he told a press conference that he was planning soon to send the Capitol messages: 1) on removing tax-exemption features from future issues of U. S. bonds and 2) on antimonopoly legislation. Then, having blanketed U. S. front pages by simply making news as completely as any dictator could blanket the columns of a censored press, Franklin Roosevelt polished off his week by attending to his correspondence of some 10,000 letters, watching 30,000 children roll Easter eggs on the White House lawn...
...message to a Congressional conference committee is unconventional, if not utterly unprecedented. Precedents mean nothing to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. To Pat Harrison and Bob Doughton, chairmen respectively of Senate Finance and House Ways & Means Committees, members of which were starting the ticklish job of compromising between the two tax bills passed by their respective chambers, he dispatched a 1,000-word letter, recommending in effect that the conference adopt the House bill which, unlike the Senate's, retains at least a portion of the Administration's pet undistributed profits and capital gains tax. Excerpt: "The repeal...