Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legislation. He approved the European trip of the Herter Committee; this helped to pass ERP on the basis of Congressmen's independent knowledge of the European crisis. He was also largely responsible for inclusion of aid-to-China in the ERP package. In domestic affairs, he ran the tax-reduction bill through the House; held up U.M.T.; pushed and prodded for a larger Air Force; had a hand in all Republican legislation such as the Taft-Hartley act. He has made it clear to Senators Vandenberg and Taft that they must stay on their own side of the Hill...
...sufficiently weighty answers? Gallup can cite example after example to indicate that they can and do. On his own ratings the people were three months ahead of Congress on the draft in 1940, nine months ahead on repeal of the neutrality embargo, two years ahead on spreading the income-tax burden from 4 to 40 million U.S. citizens. They advocated revision of the Wagner Act long before Congress passed the Taft-Hartley law. If Congress were legislating according to Gallup Poll preferences, the U.S. would now have universal military training, price control, rationing, direct election of the President...
...project, which will be a private University enterprise, has already met with Atkinson's approval. The development will not only ease the housing shortage, he explained, but will also add a large amount of assessable property to city tax rolls...
...have seen no signs, however, that Harvard students approve of a compulsory tax on themselves to finance student activities. Until such a time as a large majority of students wish to be so taxed or Millionaire Alumnus X comes forward with the necessary endowment, requests from organizations for financial aid will have to be turned down. This isn't a result of the sadistic perversity of the Dean's Office. There just isn't any pot of gold buried in University Hall...
Again, in the thorny matter of the use of University buildings by student organizations. Dean Watson simply administers regulations laid down by others. The Corporation, the Caretaking Department, the Maintenance Department, other schools of the University, the Cambridge police regulations and tax laws are all involved in this. The Dean's Office had little to say about it except to carry out as equitably as possible the reasonable regulations which have been laid down. Since there are expenses involved in the use of buildings and since there are some seventy organizations as well as numerous non-student and unorganized groups...