Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress stipulated that the amendment must be acted on within seven years. Since approval of the Bill of Rights, ratification of amendments has usually taken about a year. The 16th (income tax) took three and a half years. But it took parched Americans only nine months to approve the 21st, repealing Prohibition...
...student's free time. They must find some way of casing the current battle for support which last night saw five major events--forums, concerts, and lectures--engage in a conflicting struggle to attract the potentially interested. Under any circumstances such a plethora of time killers would tax the attention of the student body. Some are doomed to fall short of the audience they would have a right to expect on a less eventful evening...
...Magic. But Tom Dewey, who had no patience with reckless promises of 20% tax cuts, knew that these things would have to be paid for. Said he: "There is no magic to the production of government revenues. They arise only by being extracted from the pockets of the taxpayer." Nor was he beguiled by arguments for concealed, less painful taxes. "There is easy demagogy in the indirect tax...
...payment of the bonus, Dewey had an equally Spartan prescription. He wanted it paid off in ten years by means of an additional 1? tax on cigarets, a 20% increase in present income taxes. Democrats, who wanted business to pay the tab, wailed that veterans would be paying for their own bonus. Tom Dewey didn't say they wouldn't. But if the people wanted to vote a bonus, Dewey meant to see that they knew what it would cost...
...split in his own Liberal Party. The result was that in last year's elections the Liberals (whose two candidates polled a majority) were soundly defeated. But not even Colombian Liberals set up an opposition cry when their leader was presented for the $18,000-a-year job (tax free) as head of the Pan American Union. Lleras' election was unanimous...