Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want constructive action coupled with campaign promises. In the personality and record of Hubert H. Humphrey the people of Minnesota saw the dynamo of action needed for the fulfilling of their dream-the human-welfare state . . . They wanted a clean-up on the housing mess, the health problem, the tax situation, the labor snarl and half a dozen other national stumbling blocks...
...next Tory target was the throne speech, the government's statement of policy. The speech hinted at tax cuts, promised bigger baby bonuses for large families and a royal commission to study national cultural development...
...settlement Cissy Patterson's daughter will get no share of the Times-Herald, but she will get the mother's Long Island home and other personal property left her under the will. She had also been willed a $25,000 annual income. Instead, she will take a tax-paid lump sum of around $400,000. Otherwise, as her attorneys had already told the court, federal taxes alone might eat up two-thirds of the $16,500,000 estate. There might be nothing left to pay either charitable bequests or Countess Gizycka's annual income...
Reviewers did not always like Nock's books, and it is easy to see why. They nodded respectfully to his fine style, but belabored his single-tax theories. What he had to say was said merely with increasing stridency as he grew older. Albert Jay Nock was persuaded that his civilization was creaking badly and in sore need of repair, but all he chose to do about it was to utter the graceful melancholies of an innate Tory who does not care to bring his own talents to the aid of a program...
...Federal Alcohol Tax Unit announced that fewer than 3% of New York's 20,000 bars water their whiskey...