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...ways & means of constructing a non-leaking income tax law. The fat document which Mr. Morgenthau. adjusting his pince-nez, rose to read the committee had been prepared for him by his tax man, Professor Roswell Magill of Columbia. Mr. Morgenthau's professor generally approved the first draft of the committee's tax plan (TIME, Dec. 18). But he had some ideas of his own. Most popular was reduction of levies on earned income. Most novel proposal was to make compulsory a single joint return by man & wife. This, estimated Professor Magill, would...
...score of equality of the sexes the Conference voted to submit to all member states a draft treaty under which "equal nationality rights" would be guaranteed to women, and to recommend that all countries grant them "civil and political equality." Secretary Hull, acting on cabled orders from Washington, abstained from voting for the resolution because there is a faction in the Administration, led by the President's wife, which favors granting to women at work and in the home more than equal rights with...
...communique released last week by the "Pilsudski. Colonels," the tight little clique of soldier-statesmen who have ruled Poland for years under the aegis of walrus-mustached Marshal Josef Pilsudski whose whimsy is that he will not be President. For more than two years the Pilsudski Colonels have been drafting Poland's new Constitution, recognizing that Marshal Pilsudski cannot live forever, that Poland cannot always be ruled by an eccentric Dictator who insists on being War Minister and sums up his political credo in such characteristic Pilsudski snorts as "Parliament! What is Parliament? A prostitute!" Parliament, under the Constitution...
...last week. Marshal Pilsudski, many Poles thought, would forget his distaste for the Presidency and accept it as soon as the office was endowed with power. To do this job, or refuse to do it, Poland's Parliament meets this week. Said Deputy Speaker Dr. Car, championing the draft Constitution: "Poland will really remain a Democracy, not a weak Parliamentary Democracy, but one with strong institutions...
...DRAFT OF XXX CANTOS-Ezra Pound-Farrar & Rinehart...