Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with tax experts from the Treasury and both houses of Congress to plan anew survey of the entire Federal tax structure, as a basis for next year's revenue act. Approved in principle by Mr. Roosevelt is broadening the income tax base (by lowering exemption) so as to bring in five or six million new taxpayers. Other features of the Treasury's tentative plan: increasing rates in the $10,000-$50,000 income brackets; lowering the maximum surtax from 75% to 60%. In charge of the new tax study: Representative Jere Cooper of Tennessee...
...Vacationers last week were given an ugly warning to take their gas masks with them to the sea shore. But Bulldog Spirit can bring a bit of beautification even to A. R. P., as Mr. C. W. Milsom of Barnsbury, London, has demonstrated. Mr. Milsom, a backyard esthete, has prettied up the corrugated iron bomb shelter lent him (rent free) by the Government. The shelter's roof has been converted into a rock garden, a horseshoe ornaments the entrance, Christmas tree lights are strung inside. Presumably the rococo goldfish tank on the roof will be taken inside in case...
Last week Lang Williams and "Jock" Whitney decided the time had come to bring another youngster into the business, to keep it in step with present-day social trends. They announced an old friend of Lang Williams' as a new director of Freeport Sulphyr: husky, 38-year-old Alan Valentine (onetime Swarthmore footballer and Phi Beta Kappa), now president of wealthy, Eastman-endowed University of Rochester. Alan Valentine will commute from Rochester, N. Y. to Manhattan for directors' meetings, will draw the regular director's fee (normally between $10 and $20 a meeting...
...while still an adolescent became a blood brother of the Marind-Anim tribe. He returned to his native islands to make a travel film, having married the expedition's backer in Java and taken her along for the honeymoon. He says that some day he is going to bring back the dinosaur he saw and confound his skeptics. Meantime, he has brought back a passel of tales which raise the hair and eyebrows as high as any published since William Seabrook's 'jungle Ways...
...Cambridge, Mass., 92 years ago, Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa chapter banished liquor from its dinner table, for cause. Last week, saturated with its ice-watery annual banquets, reunioning members unanimously voted to bring liquor back...