Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week even his best-intended gestures somehow lacked the sure touch, and at least one had an odd consequence. Though the President could hardly be blamed for Senate failure to push through the anti-poll tax bill,* 2,000 Progressive Party members, led by Communist-line Singer Paul Robeson, picketed the White House last week in a protest demonstration...
...voting record on the question was recalled in the Senate debate; on a wartime amendment to exempt servicemen from poll tax, Senator Truman voted...
...quick brush-off. To the surprise of no one, they refused to consider price control or rationing as inflation remedies, gleefully repeated the President's observation of ten months ago that "these are marks of a police state." Their answer to a request for an excess profits tax was a brusque no. Despite Candidate Tom Dewey's personal intervention, they refused to liberalize the provisions of the Displaced Persons bill. The one unarguable gain of the week was approval of the $65 million loan for building U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters...
That done, the only concern of most House members was how soon they could pack up and go home. The Senate was still involved in the leisurely Southern filibuster against the anti-poll tax bill. But on the fifth day there was a break. The G.O.P. leadership tried to invoke cloture. But when Senate President Arthur Vandenberg ruled that cloture could not be applied, no matter how many votes in its favor, the Senate recapitulated. It was a clear victory for the South...
...pounds of thrust. The propulsive horsepower developed varies with the speed. At 375 m.p.h., one pound of thrust equals one "thrust horsepower." * Spruce, tweedy Whittle, 41, comes nearest to being the inventor of the turbojet. Recently the British Labor government, with a grand Old Regime gesture, handed him a tax-free thank you of ?100,000. *Pronounced mack. Named after Austrian Physicist Ernst Mach...