Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Knutson, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, whose 32 years in Congress had lulled him into thinking he could never be beaten. Marshall, who had been Minnesota's Farm Security administrator for six years, picked up Harry Truman's line, argued that Knutson's 1948 tax-cut bill was "a rebate to the rich...
...Pendergast machine of Kansas City, which gave Harry Truman his start in politics, all but fell apart last week, just as its most famous offspring reached his greatest glory. When fat old Tom Pendergast died in 1945, after a short stretch in Leavenworth for income-tax evasion, his nephew and image, Jim Pendergast, took over the creaky remnants of the machine. But Jim just didn't have the touch...
...Bark. There was no doubt that the stock market, which had been as certain as everyone else of a G.O.P. victory, was panicked by all the Democratic talk of stand-by price controls, an excess-profits tax, repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, and demands for wage boosts from tough, confident unions backed by a labor-minded Administration (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But calmer businessmen recalled that it was a Democratic Congress which had let OPA die, that President Truman had approved the repeal of the wartime excess-profits tax in 1945, and that wage boosts were bound to come anyway...
...boys will sit in the steel stands, paying only a dime of the 30-cent Federal tax fee while PBH pays the rest. A special entrance--gate 21--will receive the settlement house guests...
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