Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made Hearstling Damon Runyon's name a byword of the '20s and '30s. Trials and Other Tribulations reprints his grandstand reports of three notorious murder trials (Hall-Mills, Snyder-Gray, Arnold Rothstein), plus the spicy matrimonial case of "Daddy" and "Peaches" Browning, the suit for income tax that sent Al Capone to Alcatraz, and the Senate investigation of the House of Morgan (complete with midget). Last but not least, the reader will have ample opportunity to put Runyon himself on trial and observe the technique of a brilliantly smart operator...
Upholding an opposite viewpoint on night working is Cambridge tax-driver Bill Maddox, who asserts "I want to get away from my wife. That's why I work nights. I'd rather work ten hours a night and spend the day in bed, because it gives me a chance to be my boss...
Back from a European tour last week, Bowles boosted the impartial character of the U.N. drive, poked at U.S. (and Soviet) aid programs as "political": "[Recipients] are bitter at having to swallow the hammer & sickle or the American eagle. . . ." It was a bumbling beginning, but the American people, whose tax dollars had provided billions of unconditional foreign aid, could be expected to chip in again...
Since Tom Dewey is still the front runner in the race for the GOPresidential nomination, his budget was scrutinized by politicos of all parties. In demanding a bigger budget and no tax cut, he had taken a stand opposite to that of Republicans in Congress, who want both a budget and tax cut. With a startling lack of political savvy, New York Democrats pounced on the Dewey budget, calling him a "champion fiscal juggler." Said the New York Times, which never rushes to overpraise Dewey: "A businesslike budget...
Hats Outside. The group interests of Los Angeles' promoters often conflict with their private interests. Last year the Chamber campaigned for more highways, to be financed by a boost in the gasoline tax. Oilmen who are members of the Chamber not only opposed the idea, they spent thousands to fight it. Chamber President Clarence Beesemyer is an oilman himself (vice president of General Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc.). But he helped the Chamber fight the program through the state legislature...