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...sharp boost on income surtaxes above the $150,000 level, reaching a high of 75% on incomes over $10,000,000. (Present top surtax: 59% over $1,000,000.) Estimated yield...
...held public hearings. Progressive Republican Assemblyman Melvyn Cronin demanded acceptance of the bill to stop the centralization of wealth, prevent the destruction of independents, save the State from wage slavery, keep open for posterity the road of opportunity. John Francis Neylan, Hearst lawyer, trumpeted the counterblast: confiscation, a 10% boost in food prices for those least able to pay, a tax on efficiency of distribution. "We have all lived long enough," cried eloquent Attorney Neylan, "to know that the men running these chain stores have not got horns. They are not people who chew up little babies." Governor Merriam...
Rather than boost rates to consumers so that Hydro could honor these sour contracts, Premier Hepburn proposes by act of the Ontario Parliament to repudiate them as "illegal, void & unenforceable...
...bitter fight in Tennessee's Supreme Court, broke the grip of the Church. Then, with the Vanderbilts behind him, he made himself autocrat. Several millions of dollars from the Vanderbilts and more from the Rockefellers' General Education Board enabled him to get together a respectable faculty, boost the admission requirements. Throughout the South, church colleges followed Vanderbilt's lead in declaring their independence, raising their standards...
...meeting of the Eastern Rugby Union of America held in New York over the weekend a new constitution was adopted to help boost the game in America. At the same time measures were adopted for arranging future tours of English rugger teams in this country...