Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more concern to Winchell than Cissie Patterson's prayers were similar remarks made in Congress. House Naval Affairs Committeeman Melvin Maas declared that "Winchell should be assigned to duty at Samoa or permitted to resign." Naval Affairs Committee Chairman Carl Vinson asserted: "I can tell you right now that I have advised the Navy Department either to call him [Winchell] into active service or to disenroll...
...House Naval Affairs Committee, chairmanned by Georgia's dumpy, turtle-faced Carl Vinson, had set itself a tedious task: to investigate progress of the Navy building program, discover the profiteers and blast them...
Congress and the nation remembered that in World War I many corporations had made staggering profits out of ships and munitions.* For weeks Washington had been on the alert for the Vinson report, nerved itself this week to hear the report go off, dynamiting the profiteers of World...
Labor's Profits. The Vinson committee also collected the first official figures on the financial status of labor unions in the U.S. The committee questioned 162 unions-A.F. of L., C.I.O. and the large independents-got 117 answers...
...returns, one of the big income-tax loopholes will probably be enacted, getting the Treasury some $325,000,000 to $500,000,000 more-a provision aimed at the eight States which have community-property laws. > Corporation excess-profits taxes: last year Congress raised all brackets 10%. When the Vinson Committee reports soon on shipbuilding profits, some of which range to 200%, such a squawk is expected that taxperts figured that Congress would raise rates so steeply as to pick up another billion dollars. > Manufacturers' excise taxes: if Congress can be kept from providing exemptions this...