Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beautiful, sparsely populated 222,000-acre valley, where frontier rustlers once hid out. For 50 years conservationists have been fighting to make it a park. But many a Congressman and rancher bristled. Their argument: the Federal Government already owns too much western land; Federal ownership cuts down State land taxes. In his veto the President rejoined: Wyoming is still permitted to tax private lands in the valley, and private grazing rights remain inviolate...
Canadian public officials are not well paid, even by Canadian standards. Prime Minister King gets $21,000* ($15.000 as Prime Minister, $4,000 as a member of Parliament, $2,000 in tax-free car allowance). Wartime taxes take a fat slice (an estimated $15,000) of what he does get. Yet Mr. King did not particularly need the Mulock legacy. Few Canadians realize that their Prime Minister is a fairly well-heeled...
...mill owners said they were unable to operate at a profit, closed their mills. In San Luis 1,000 desperate workers seized the city hall, settled down for a hunger strike to force the Government to open the local mill. Grau had appeased the mill owners with four-year tax exemptions, had threatened to cancel their quotas unless they ground sugar. The mills remained closed. Then Grau cracked a heavier whip. Sugar mills would prepare for production at once, the President ordered, or face confiscation...
...meeting was called by the Committee of Editors and Writers of the South in anticipation of Congress' reviving the anti-poll tax bill. The conferees-eight of the 51 were Negroes-were against the poll tax, deprecated other Southern devices for depriving the Negro of his Constitutional right to vote. The editors and writers mingled affably and called each other "Mr." with an ease that surprised both races...
...Author Harnett Kane of New Orleans told of Louisiana elections held in white bars or bordellos, which no Negro dared enter. He recalled Huey Long's remark after the Legislature repealed Louisiana's poll tax in 1934: "The white primary will take care of the nigger...