Word: taxed
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Civil Rights. A federal anti-lynching law; repeal of the poll tax in the seven states which still have it; a law against segregation and discrimination in interstate transportation; a permanent federal Fair Employment Practice Commission to see that there is no discrimination in jobs...
...means of increasing the vote in national elections,* New York's Democratic Representative Arthur G. Klein proposed a $30 income-tax deduction for every voter who casts his ballot...
During his eight years in power, Muñoz has built the world's largest tax-financed project of individual houses (TIME, Aug. 23), started an $11 million hospital program, raised the percentage of the island's children in school from 49 to 58. But his chief tool for improvement is the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co. Under the driving management of 38-year-old, Barcelona-born Teodoro ("Teddy") Moscoso Jr., PRIDC is plugging the island's advantages in openhanded tax concessions, cheap (as low as 15?-an-hour minimum) labor, and plentiful, government-owned electric power...
William Polk has had to face two other hurdles: money and Harvard University's rules. The first problem arose because, inexperienced in money raising, he did not apply to the Bureau of Internal Revenue for tax exempt status for gifts until his drive for funds was well under way; by the time he did apply, red tape would have kept him from getting approval until well after the time it would be useful. Failure to get the tax exempt status for gifts for a non-profit purpose cost him many contributions. Moreover, despite donations from the Harvard Liberal Union...
Haitians, he had been warned, were too poor to be taxed. There had even been mutterings among the coffee-colored aristocracy about an armed rising. But last week, as President Dumarsais Estimé's income-tax law-the first in Haiti's 144-year history-went into effect, Haitians were too absorbed by the things Estimé was doing with his record-breaking $13,000,000 budget to take much notice of the new tax...