Word: todays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cutting taxes: "There is a hullabaloo for the repeal of the undistributed earnings tax. You would think that this was the principal deterrent to business today. Yet it is a simple fact that out of $1,100,-000,000 paid to the Federal Government by corporations, less than $20,000,000 conies to the Government from the undistributed earnings tax-less than 2% of the total. . . . I am wholly willing to have this $20,000,000 tax . .. repealed on two simple conditions, which are based on principle. . . ." (The two: raise it from the big corporations, find another substitute for taxing...
...bell, and, in Veuve Cliquot '28 the guests toasted first the King then the Queen, then both. Then the King lit up before a waiter could get to him with a match (the Queen does not smoke in public), and listened while Prime Minister King reminded the diners: "Today as never before, the throne has become the centre of our national life." Stammering slightly His Majesty spoke in English: . . . Deeply moved . . . moment is historic . . . anticipation too great for expression." Then, in unhesitating French, he said: "It is here today that two great races dwell happily side by side...
...Nieman bequest, so far from having failed, has doubtless already begun to elevate the standards of American journalism." It has sent an important reverberation through the press of the nation, with the effect that today journalism may well become the province of highly educated men. Its effect cannot be measured solely in terms of the personal benefit derived by nine men; the Nieman Fellowships have begun to demonstrate to the American press the importance of education...
...Today is the last day of balloting in the annual Council elections. Votes may be cast in the House dining halls during luncheon and dinner hours; at the Hasty Pudding Clubhouse during meal times; and at Widener Library between 9:30 and 12:30 o'clock this morning and 2 and 8 o'clock this afternoon...
...leading editorial of today's issue of the Alumni Bulletin, the editors review the tutoring school campaign and in reference to the faculty action of last week prohibiting the employment of students by tutoring schools, state that they feel that the Faculty ought to act further...