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Died. Guy Tresillian Helvering, 68, square, ruddy U.S. district court judge and Democratic party chairman for Kansas; from 1933 to 1943 (two years longer than any other man), Franklin Roosevelt's Internal Revenue Commissioner, under whose regime the pay-as-you-go tax plan went into effect; after a series of operations; in Washington...
...Treasury ran smack into a serious shortage problem last week when Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy Tresillian Helvering estimated that to collect the proposed 5% withholding tax on salaries his bureau would need 50,000 new machines and pieces of office equipment, plus 11,000 new employes. Private businesses would likewise need thousands of machines and payroll clerks...
...most anxious for the "pink slip" law's repeal last week was one whom, as a taxpayer, it could not embarrass. Anyone may turn to a World Almanac, learn that the U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue gets $10,000 a year. But Commissioner Guy Tresillian Helvering knows that the job of compiling the pink slips would put a tremendous extra burden on his Bureau, cost the Government some...
...Passed (48-10-20) the House joint resolution to outlaw the gold payment clause in all public and private debt contracts; sent it to the President. ¶ Confirmed (56-10-21) the nomination of Kansas' Guy Tresillian Helvering to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue. He was hotly opposed by Republicans on the ground that as an ex-Congressman he had wangled many a tax case out of the Treasury. Michigan's Couzens denounced him as a man of "shifty eyes and shifty methods." Kansas' Senator Capper declared that, though always opposed to him politically, he thought Appointee...
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