Word: white-collar
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...brackets British income and supertax payers are being assessed 85% -basic British income tax rate is 37½%. The Chancellor last week invaded lower brackets, making supertax begin at incomes of $5,250 instead of $7,000, and again treating the British white-collar class rough. A married but childless Briton making $1,050 whose income tax was $17.50 the year before last and $24.50 last year will...
...years ago, some students at the University of Minnesota formed a Bach Society. They persuaded a genial, absentminded, popeyed music professor, Donald Nivison Ferguson, to be their conductor. Anyone able & willing to sing Bach for three hours a week could join. The Bachsters welcomed not only students, but socialites, white-collar workers of Minneapolis and St. Paul, a telephone lineman. Once a year the Bach Society held an "open meeting," free to the public...
...White-Collar Criminality" was the title of a rip-snorting paper by Dr. Edwin Hardin Sutherland of Indiana University, last year's president of the American Sociological Society. He does not agree with many criminologists that crime is caused by poverty-stricken environments or by mental and physiological conditions associated with poverty. He classed as white-collar criminals the "robber barons" of the 19th Century and the Kreugers, Staviskys, Insulls, Whitneys, Coster-Musicas of the 20th, contended that there exists a great welter of less spectacular white-collar rascality-short weights in stores, commercial bribery, willful violations of food...
...Chicago Fellows meet for 50? lunches at the Brevoort Hotel on Tuesdays, listen to speeches on "How I Came to Jesus," enjoy a half-hour of "Christian fellowship." Most of the Fellows are white-collar workers, with a scattering of executives like Board Chairman James Lewis Kraft of Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp., Vice President Frank Flagg Taylor of Continental Illinois Bank. Still spark plug of the club is Cartoonist Shoemaker, who contributes drawings to the club paper, lately packed a Tuesday meeting by demonstrating the "Shoescope," a $1,500 contraption which projects his cartoons, as he draws them, upon...
...John implied that the already crushing British income tax, which long ago ceased to be purely a "soak-the-rich" proposition, will have to be extended downward from the white-collar to the soiled-collar class. Britain is spending half her national income on the war, the Chancellor warned, yet even with armament plants going full blast 1,400,000 workers are still unemployed. Sir John, with typical British forthrightness, declared that a war of this magnitude cannot be fought on any easy assumption that it will not depress the existing standard of living in Britain and elsewhere...