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DIED. Dan Throop Smith, 74, chief tax economist in the Eisenhower Administration, distinguished academician at Harvard and Stanford's Hoover Institution and longtime conservative advocate of tax cuts to boost the economy; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif. A precursor of supply-side economists, Smith believed "all taxes are repressive," and supported lower capital gains taxes to encourage risk-taking investments. At the same time, he urged reduction of tax incentives for "safe" investments that do not lead to a greater supply of capital for business. His aim: "To make it easier to get rich but harder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 14, 1982 | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

Properly girt about with wash-and-wear shirts, Soby sets sail for Venice and is set upon by a pair of memorable literary harpies: Miss Mathilde Kollwitz, a mosquito-sized Winnetka music teacher who perennially knits a succession of moose-sized sweaters, and Miss Winifred Throop, a mountainous ex-headmistress who wears a red wig as proudly as she does her overgrown schoolgirl's faith in True Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love in Venice | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

...achieve his own aging heart's desire (which soon turns out to be Miss Throop's 17-year-old niece), Soby endures, besides the company of these two ladies, all manner of other trials. He tears around the Mediterranean to rescue an old tomcat (symbolically named Aschenbach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love in Venice | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

...Throop Smith, professor of Finance, yesterday resigned as the U.S. Treasury Department's chief tax adviser. Smith began his tenure of service with the Treasury Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor of Finance Quits Treasury Post | 1/7/1959 | See Source »

EXCISE TAXES on tobacco, liquor gasoline, etc. will continue after the April 1 expiration date if the Treasury Department has its way. Assistant to the Treasury Secretary Dan Throop Smith told a House Ways and Means subcommittee that the Treasury would be "much concerned" about any changes in tax rates or methods of payment that would reduce Government revenues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 17, 1955 | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

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