Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closed it in April (1967). She was hired for the movies in April (1968), as the nominal leading lady (a professional actress played her role) in the Arlo Guthrie hit, Alice's Restaurant. She can look forward to still another big April (1970)-when she pays her income tax...
...warned that Nixon might veto bills -possibly even the tax-reform bill-that involved excessive spending or loss of revenue. Almost his last words before his appointment to the Federal Reserve were: "We will not budge...
Computerized Job Bank. As a policy adviser, Burns' record is uneven. He opposed repeal of the 7% investment tax credit-and lost. He won on another question by persuading the Administration to come out against taxing the interest on state and municipal bonds. He sold Nixon on the idea of a computerized job bank that would list jobs offered by employers all over the country to aid in placement of the unemployed. On the other hand, the President sent to Congress a billion-dollar program to combat hunger, despite Burns' strenuous objections that it was unnecessary and cost...
...lasting impression on the Vice President, Richard Nixon. Burns left in 1956 to become president of the privately endowed National Bureau of Economic Research, but continued as Nixon's personal economic adviser. Last winter, just before being named Special Counsellor to the President, he suggested that the tax increases and spending cuts then contemplated would not be enough to contain inflation. Once ensconced in the White House, he optimistically judged in April that it would be reasonable to expect the Administration to bring the rate of inflation down to 3% for 1969. It is now running at 6%. Nevertheless...
SYNDICATE ABROAD by Hank Messick. 246 pages. Macmillan. $5.95. This nononsense, all-business book, the fourth Messick "Syndicate" title in three years, bears down on the Bahamas, wonder drug for February sufferers and haven for the U.S. gamblers and tax-afflicted...