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There was a single chance to alter the bill-by voting to send it back to the Committee with instructions to write in one change. Republicans could think of no better change than to reduce first class postage rates from 3? to 2? at a cost of $75,000,000 a year to the Treasury. On this vote they were beaten 271-to-133. Thus for a full working week hamstrung Representatives argued the Committee's plans for rearranging nominal and surtax rates; for a 10% tax reduction on earned incomes up to $8,000; for a new system...
...Lowes, presumably, will be President Conant's alter ego in all matters involving the drawing up of budgets and the allocation of the University's funds. President Lowell was his own financial adviser in these matters, while the routine work of disposition was left to the Comptroller. All this work will be--indeed, already has been--taken over by Mr. Lowes. The wisdom of splitting up the educational and financial aspects of the presidency, while leaving the former paramount, can not be questioned. The qualifications of a great educator and a successful financial executive are so diverse that it would...
...Northerner ("damn blue-bellied Yankee") moves in upon their acres as a tenant farmer, starts an experimental tobacco crop. On his death his daughter Joanna (Janet Gaynor) carries on. Young Will Connelly falls in love with her. Proud old Mrs. Connelly indignantly orders the girl off her place. Alter the usual to-do Will makes a stand, marries Joanna, turns the plantation from cotton to tobacco and reaps a new fortune. Tight-laced Mrs. Connelly is last seen smoking a cigaret...
...which has been a focusing point for attacks on him, Mr. Hurley stated that he supposed that it was an institutional record of the inmate's activities, but that he was not sure of its function. When asked whether Mr. Gill did not have a complete right to alter it at his pleasure, he said "That's entirely a matter of personal opinion. To my knowledge it is the only institutional record a man has down there. It is entirely possible that Mr. Gill may have some satisfactory explanation. The record is probably not planation. The record is probably...
...Considerable juggling with normal and surtax rates which will alter tax return arithmetic but make little cash difference to taxpayers. Taxes will be a trifle lower for married men, a trifle higher for single persons...