Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably not to meet again until next January, can pride itself on having been active enough in its seven-month session, but in too many things it has willingly failed. Broadly, the reason has been a confusion of statesmanship and politics, leading to such asinine Republican challenges as. "No tax relief, no European relief." Sinking back comfortably into their trust in man's supposed basic selfishness, these Congressional leaders based their political hopes on a fantastic combination of a brave, new isolationism and a hideous fear of Russia. But while a great deal of bumbling has been done about communism...
Anti-poll tax legislation overrode an incipient filibuster in the House yesterday, as a 290 to 112 vote approved the measure and sent it on to the Senate...
...graduate, they report, is torch-singer Libby Holman's secretary, while another compiles tax reports for a fiduciary trust company and loves...
Harry Truman's veto of the tax and labor bills had opened the 1948 presidential campaign with a bang. Last week, poll-taking Dr. George Gallup recorded the echoes...
Though he was careful to keep his views on both domestic and foreign policy off the record, he outlined his main points in Republican meetings. He was for an even deeper tax cut than Congress' 30-20-10%. He would go up to 50% across the board. He approved the Taft-Hartley Act as an equalizer of the strength of management and labor. He thought the President had bumbled badly on foreign relations. Too many of Harry Truman's appointees in the State Department were patriotic but untrained diplomats, he said...