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...steps taken by the Student Council last night to institute a budget bids fair to abolish yet another feudal survival in the University. The proposal to raise in a single drive funds to meet the annual expenses of organization and charity can be regarded from no point of view with anything but approval. Harvard is the last large university in the East to adopt this method and it is to be hoped that the experience of other institutions will, in contributing the success of the plan here, more than offset the delay in its adoption...
...greatest struggle was over estate taxes, which the House members were eager to retain and which the Senate wished to abolish. Finally a 20% maximum estate tax, with a personal exemption of $100,000, was agreed on. So the joint conference finally gave birth to the third tax reduction bill of the season?a compromise in which all shades of political affiliations were represented, but in which the tax views of the Administration appear uppermost...
...House Committee in the District of Columbia was holding hearings on a bill to abolish capital punishment in that little rectangle of land set apart for the business of governing the nation. A witness appeared to be questioned. He wore baggy clothes, was weary looking. A cigaret drooped from his mouth. But his eyes focused with keeness and understanding on the members of the committee...
With Methodist money the Sabbath Chairman telegraphed every railroad president, asking cooperation. One replied. Frederick D. Atterbury President of the Erie, said he would be delighted to abolish Sunday trains; they lose money...
...been quite forgotten. The internal debt, a legacy of the late war still amounts to a sum over twenty-three billions. Thus far the debt has been steadily retired, but this has been due chiefly to the super-taxes on high incomes, which Congress is now proposing to abolish in part. These exactions though admittedly heavy, have proved more annoying than crushing; Industry reached its highest peak of post-war prosperity last year, thus showing conclusively that the present rate of taxation is not putting too much of a strain on business. The government can turn the prosperity...