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¶ Passed a House bill to continue for another year the 1? per gal. gasoline tax, to reduce local postage from 3? to 2?, to authorize the President to adjust other postal rates as he sees fit; sent it to conference. The House bill transferred the 3% electricity tax from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, May 22, 1933 | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

and / ter but you don't mention my having written two operas, i.e. the music. That is more important than my written criticism. I mean to say I have "set to music" a great deal of the best poetry of Villon and Cavalcanti with the intention of getting it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1933 | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

Effective April 1, Illinois passed a 3? tax on all retail goods sold except gasoline and farm products sold directly to the consumer. If you buy $1 worth of food in an Illinois restaurant; a little item at the bottom of your check requires another 3?. Proceeds go to dependent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Depression Children | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

The Handle of the Wallace pitchfork is the Secretary's power to tax. To raise money to pay land rents and Domestic Allotment "benefits" he may levy on every bushel of wheat the miller turns to flour, on every pound of pork and beef the packer turns to ham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Senate v. Sun | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

"The processing tax will not necessarily become operative with respect to all commodities. If a satisfactory price could be reached and maintained by trade agreements no tax would be imposed. . . . The chances are that the tax would start at a relatively low figure so as not to restrict retail sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Senate v. Sun | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

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