Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workers-who have already used up their regular jobless pay -from special federal unemployment compensation lists. Hoping to do more than extend the emergency legislation, Mitchell has spelled out a plan for basic revision in the present patchwork of state compensation practices, all financed by the 3% U.S. payroll tax. By setting stiffer standards under which states qualify for their lion's share of this tax, Mitchell hopes to lengthen coverage to a uniform 30 weeks at half pay for the average worker who loses his job. But Mitchell has yet to get White House permission to present...
...control of Congress by the two Texans, Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn (''When you get these two men together with the power of making committee assignments, you see the obsequious bowing, scraping Senators and Congressmen around them"); 2) the oil depletion allowance ("a terrific tax handout and giveaway"); 3) Johnson's talents for civil rights compromise ("Effective civil rights legislation is impossible"). Then Proxmire, a Harvard Business School graduate ('40), blamed Johnson for keeping him off the Senate Finance Committee despite repeated requests, noted sarcastically that the Committee would, of course, deal with oil depletion...
...Reduction of commercial acreage by almost 50%, with emphasis on unsightly and inconvenient "ribbon" business districts lining block after block of arterial streets in residential neighborhoods. ¶ Better zoning for the needs of heavy industry to keep scattered houses out of scarce plots more suitable for large-scale, big tax-paying plants. ¶ An increase of off-street parking facilities for New York's 1,500,000 vehicles; new apartment houses would have to provide more garage space, new commercial buildings would have to provide off-street parking. Exceptions: in business districts in downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan, the planners...
...Tacoma, Wash., pudgy Dave Beck, 64, onetime president of the Teamsters, was convicted of income tax evasion involving $240,000 owed the Federal Government. A jury of eight men and four women deliberated 23 hours, 59 minutes, finally found Beck guilty on six separate counts, were praised by Judge George H. Boldt "on behalf of myself and 170,000,000 odd of my fellow citizens for a service splendidly performed." During a 59-day trial, prosecutors charged that Beck cheated the Bureau of Internal Revenue by pocketing Teamster expense funds when other people paid his bills. Beck, already appealing...
Murphy announced that his mail favored the stand he had taken last Saturday by a ratio of 11 to 1. Though he declined to predict the Legislature's reaction to the sales tax, he quoted an unnamed Democratic Legislator as saying, "I think it is dead...