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...tottering. His trouble dated back to 1928 when Capitalist Cyrus Eaton of Cleveland, through Continental Shares, his investment trust, now in receivership, decided to buy working control of a number of Insull utilities. Sam Insull was probably worth $100,000,000, but he did not own any great fraction of his companies' stock. He ruled them because he had built them. To head off Mr. Eaton's raid-a raid the courts have called piratical-he formed a holding company...
...alive; and when the talk ceases, his art will cease to exist. Its vitality is verbal." Matisse is a "rug maker," a "pattern maker," a painter of "lolling odalisques in diapered interiors." "When we say that his emotion is but another name for bourgeois well-being and that a fraction of it, equally distributed, informs his designs, we have said all that can be said of the content of his painting." "Scratch a patron or a collector, and you find a dealer." Modern Art brings forward for public inspection Mr. Craven's sincere belief and hope that an "explicitly...
...taxes, taxes, more faxes. Sometimes the Progressives led by La Follette, Nye and Norris harried him with plans to soak the rich, to pile up surtaxes and estate taxes. Sometimes Couzens was after him to soak not the rich alone but all taxpayers in order to pay another small fraction of the huge expenses of the New Deal...
...leaders have been saying for months that they would be glad to increase wages and the employment to more labor if they could get an increasing volume of transactions. The recent enlargement of domestic purchasing power has been encouraging, but it is not enough to absorb even a small fraction of the surpluses. Curtailed production is not efficient either in agriculture or in industry to take care of the employment situation or the price level...
...reasoning of the Congressional Committee's experts is that a surtax on an individual income gives the Federal Government more money than if the same amount is spread among a lot of small taxpayers, each of whom pays a small fraction. In other words, the theory of the income tax is that it is to the interest of the Government to see high salaries and bonuses paid because the present theory of taxation is to increase the tax rates materially on higher incomes...