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...Extended Germany's retail sales tax to all merchants. Those with an annual turnover less than 5,000 marks ($1,191) have been exempt...
...Passed a House bill to exempt husbands of U.S. citizens from the immigration quota; sent it to the President...
...Approve a 2% excise tax on chewing gum, 2¼% on tires, 4% on inner tubes, special taxes on communications (exempt: news dispatches), real estate conveyances, stock & bond issues, safe deposit boxes, oil pipeline tolls...
...Sales Tax champion, suddenly brought forth a measure to make the second-class postal increase unnecessary (a bid for Press support) and tax all manufacturers alike. He proposed a 1.75%, general manufacturers sales tax, conservatively estimated to yield $325,000,000, the law to expire July 1, 1934. Exempt would be food, cheap clothing, agricultural products, workmen's tools, tobacco, nonproprietary medicines, periodicals...
...Club the following resolution was adopted ...." In this form it was passed and sent to the press. Whoever "promulgated" it as "the definite opinion of the Harvard Liberal Club" was inaccurate. Any member of the club not present at this meeting may have the subtle satisfaction of considering himself exempt from this expression of viewpoint if he so desires. However, the point is a sophisticated one and may be overlooked in a majority of cases. The same procedure was used at a "special meeting" on the Sino-Japanese crisis, and the same procedure will be used at future Liberal Club...