Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sassing. "Get back on the bench and go home with the rest of us." When Frisch was running the celebrated Gashouse Gang in St. Louis, Dizzy Dean used to needle him "just to hear that Dutchman roar." Last week, the Dutchman got a new job that would tax his ingenuity and vocal cords...
...Tax-free U.S. colleges and universities make excellent heirs and business partners, as many a businessman has learned. Dozens of colleges own commercial real estate, apartment buildings and factories, some own ranches and farms. New York University gets the profits of the C. F. Mueller Co. (macaroni), while the University of Michigan operates the airport at Willow Run. Last week, the University of Louisville found itself hooked up with a race track...
...explanations, and laid down the law. There would be no adjournment, Truman said, until his minimum program was passed. That included federal aid to education, housing and slum clearance and a 75/ minimum wage. He wanted at least a token civil-rights bill- either antilynching or anti-poll tax. Truman conceded that there was no chance this session for his health program, major civil-rights legislation, or his $4 billion tax increase...
...White House reporters Bunche gave two tactful reasons: he felt his U.N. job (as director of the trusteeship department) was important; he could not afford to take a salary cut from his tax-free $14,000 at U.N. to a taxable $10,000 as an Assistant Secretary of State...
...turn the Government's prospective $2.9 billion deficit into a $1.7 billion surplus for fiscal 1949-50 was proposed by Arkansas' Wilbur D. Mills, a Democratic member of the House Ways & Means Committee. Mills introduced a bill which would require corporations to pay all their 1949 taxes before July 1, 1950, instead of in four quarterly pay-ments-thus adding an estimated $4.6 billion to tax receipts for the next fiscal year, which ordinarily would not have been paid until the following fiscal year. The Treasury took the idea under advisement, while G.O.P. lawmakers rightly complained that...