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Cripps called his new gadget a "special once-for-all levy." But the conservative Daily Telegraph assailed it as "class legislation of the worst type. ... A budget professedly designed to stimulate incentive studiously ignores the risk-taker." Indignant investors were reminded that when Sir Robert Peel proposed an income tax in 1842 he had said: "I think it just to limit the duration to three years...
Student refusal to be dominated by the nickel-snatching pay telephone has caused the New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. to once again blow off its annual steam...
Today Standard Oil of Ohio will set up one-day headquarters in the Placement Office. Procter and Gamble, Sylvania Elective. National City Bank, Sears Roebuck, American Telephone and Telegraph, and the U. S. Trust Company will take the stand later...
...Manhattan, directors of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. gathered at their routine monthly meeting last week for a duty that was far from routine. They elected a new president, Leroy A. Wilson,* 47, to run the largest business enterprise in the world. Walter Sherman Gifford, 63, who has headed the company for 23 years, moved up into the vacant board chairmanship...
...night force knows me pretty well"), moderate ambition ("My only interest is in the challenge of a job, not its level") and a friendly manner ("I know them all by their first names") helped him move up fast. In 1929 he was transferred to the parent company, American Telephone & Telegraph, where he became general commercial engineer in 1942, vice president two years later...