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Because no more than a temporary job could be done at the time, a subcommittee of the House Ways & Means Committee has been drafting all summer long more elaborate devices to make people pay income taxes. Last week a partial draft of those plans was made public. Certain it is that the draft will be altered, perhaps unrecognizably, to meet the needs of the budget as well as of practical politics. But equally certain is it that a new tax law will be enacted by Congress this session, and last week's announcement gave the first inkling...
...tutor are defined in this manner, it becomes obvious that only men of the highest calibre can possibly qualify as tutors. When the major benefit of tutorial work consists in individual contact with a mature, well-educated man, then it is in extreme opposition to this purpose to draft men of lesser ability and experience for such exacting work. The CRIMSON believes that it is in the best interests of the tutorial system to eliminate such men from tutorial work; to permit only the outstanding men of departments to tutor; and to make a corresponding cut in the number...
...Illinois the prospect of State liquor control before Repeal dimmed last week when a commission appointed to draft a bill failed to agree. Two widely divergent measures, one leaving the question of control to local communities, the other setting up a State commission, were sent to the floor for debate...
...Straus of R. H. Macy & Co. and by consumer organizations- TIME, Oct. 16), the President inserted a provision merely prohibiting sales at less than cost. This, General Johnson explained, was to prevent farmers from complaining that the NRA arbitrarily raises the prices of the things they buy. In the draft the President signed, almost one-third of the nation's 1,500,000 stores, those stores employing fewer than five persons in towns of 2,500 or less, were exempted from the re-employment agreement...
James M. Landis, professor of Legislation at the Harvard Law School, has been appointed by President Roosevelt a member of the Federal Trade Commission in supervision of the Securities Act, which he helped to draft. In order to accept the appointment Professor Landis announced his withdrawal from candidacy for the Cambridge City Council...