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Your March 10 article on taxes was timely and informative. I shed no tears for my fellow citizens who are being hit where it hurts them most. For years they approved a dishonest tax, and they deserve all they get. Unscrupulous politicians have always understood that they could depend upon the votes of those who are moved by "envy, malice and all uncharitableness." The Marxian concept of graduated income and inheritance taxes was made to order for them . . . The Communist Manifesto advocated ten measures which should be adopted in order to bring about a dictatorship of the proletariat...
...Americans has given him as clear a call as a man can get from the people under the present primary setup. They like Ike, in spite of his absence, because he is not a professional politician, because they think he understands the issues on which peace and war depend, because he shares their suspicion of the mushrooming bureaucratic state...
Macy's did not grow faster. Last year, in fact, it had one of the worst years in its history. The chain's profits, which depend largely on the New York store, tumbled from $7.7 million to $3.9 million, from $4.10 per common share to $1.67. One big factor, some competitors thought, was the money-losing price war which Weil had touched off with a big fanfare of ads right after the U.S. Supreme Court knocked out fair-trade laws. Weil had thought that the war would last a few days; it ran for six weeks and many...
...doctors were just as upset as their U.S. colleagues over the premature publicity given the drug and the false hopes that might be aroused. But one thing made them happy: if the drug proves really valuable, Spain can make it cheaply in any amount, and will not have to depend on hard-to-get imports...
...commissioner could be--and doubtless would be--considered prima facie evidence against the bookseller. On the evidence that the bookseller had been warned of a book's libelousness, the court could judge him guilty. Such subtle suppression is dangerous the bookseller cannot read all books and therefore must depend on the state for advice. In so doing, however, the seller cannot determine whether the state's advice is accurate or even just grounds to remove a particular book from the stands. But even more serious, the state can threaten the seller with legal action if he does not comply...