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...system of calculating capital gains and losses; for placing a 35% tax on the undivided earnings of personal holding companies; for raising the penalty tax on consolidated corporate returns from 1% to 2%. When they had talked themselves dry without changing a line in the Committee draft, 390 Representatives voted "yea," seven lone Republicans cried "no." The bill was passed on to the Senate. When weeks or months hence it is returned to the House for concurrence, few Representatives will be able to recognize the bill they approved last week with such tender care...
From Weinsberg, Germany, whither he fled from the U. S. as a draft-dodger 14 years ago, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll wrote his first public letter to the Philadelphia Record. Rebutting charges that he had bribed his way to freedom from his Army captors, Dodger Bergdoll declared: "I never paid a cent of graft to anyone in the world, and I never intend to. If I were given to bribery I could easily have bribed myself into a rocking-chair job in the Army or Navy during the War and would have avoided all the trouble...
...shiny brass, and hung from a steel framework the slide poles have aluminum shutters which open when a man's weight is put on the pole and close again when he lets go. The shutters cover up the hole through which the man must slide and prevent the usual draft which rushes up the open holes...
...optimist, Klim has expressed conviction that the world's next important war, no matter how it starts, will end up as a concerted assault by the Capitalist Powers on the Soviet Union. For this reason he threw his whole influence behind a successful move to draft the Five-Year Plan in such fashion that Russia would achieve self-sufficiency first in the realm of munitions and armaments. As Captain Liddell Hart points out, Soviet battle planes-on which Klim pins so much hope -are of 100% Soviet manufacture and the whole effort of the Red War Office...
...Pointing indignantly to European pension systems, Authoress Mayo asks: "Did they, too, profane the name of their War-disabled, using it as a mask for racketeers? Did they, too, bestow the title of 'veteran' on men who saw no service beyond a training camp or a draft board office? Did they class with battle casualties persons kicked by a mule or frightened by a tree-toad ten years after the War was over...