Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweeping 178-page report, a special Presidential committee has come forward with a 25 plank proposal to end discrimination on racial and religious grounds in the United States. Included in the report are demands for Federal anti-poll tax, anti-lynching, and fair employment practices legislation; for Federal and State laws to prevent segregation or discrimination in schools, theaters, trains, and hotels; and for State laws against restrictive real estate covenants. On the surface, the committee's recommendations would appear to be a major blow in behalf of civil liberties...
...human freedom in our time." The "if," however, is a big one. Several states, notably New York with its Ives-Quinn Fair Employment Practices Act, have already taken steps along the lines the committee indicates. And the Republican Party stands pledged to bring anti-lynching and anti-poll tax legislation before the current Congress...
...Cornetist Petrillo is the world's best-paid labor leader. He gets $20,000 a year from A.F.M. and $26,000 from its Chicago local (which also pays his income tax and provides him with a new car whenever he gets tired of the old one). He also has an $18,000 annual expense account...
...first nine months of this year (TIME, Oct. 13). K-F joyfully informed stockholders that the company had made a profit of $8.3 million in the third quarter, after a loss of $2.2 million in the first six months. The overall profit of $6.1 million, said K-F, was tax free under the carry-forward tax provision. (K-F's $19.3 million loss in 1946 makes profits up to that amount tax free.) The report, said K-F, was unaudited and "subject to change with year-end adjustments...
...James Roosevelt's income-tax returns...