Word: localizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...five-hour session in Manhattan, 150 representatives of Willkie Clubs decided to keep their national organization, under another name. Suggested title: Independent Clubs. Purposes: 1) "To encourage the exercise of good citizenship by taking part in local political affairs." 2) "To promote a better understanding of current political questions. . . ."3) "To encourage competent men and women . . . to seek public office through the machinery of our two-party system." Said Original Willkie Booster Oren Root: "Our position is the same [as before the election] in that there are certain fundamental principles of government and of life in which we believe just...
...major untapped revenue sources were open. One was the direct means of lowering exemptions and raising rates on lower-income groups, as per Mr. Taft's proposal. Another was the indirect means of ceasing to issue tax-exempt securities. Net total of tax-exempt securities (Federal, State, local) is now some...
Last week he announced that he would ask Congress to remove tax-exemption rights from all future bonds-Federal, State, local. There was no doubt that he would get authorization for issuing completely taxable Federal bonds, but passage of a law affecting State and local securities was another matter. Reason: opposition by municipalities and States'-righters. Townsmen, villagers and politicians girded their lobbyists last week for a death-&-taxes struggle with their Congressmen. Victory has always been on their side: Presidents Harding, Coolidge, Hoover; Treasury Secretaries Andrew Mellon and Ogden Mills all advocated abandonment of tax exemptions, were always...
Last week General Wood's committee-the antithesis of William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies-had 60,000 members, eleven local chapters and an organization drive that was going like a house afire. In Washington, national committee members included such strange company as socially conscientious Kathryn Lewis (daughter of John L.) and socially conspicuous Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Just what the organization was after remained obscure: it was easier to see what it was against than what it was for. And what the committee was against was getting the U. S. into...
...Freshman Committee has been actively participating in the annual Old Clothes Drive, distributed two truck loads of Thanksgiving baskets to the needy of Cambridge and staged a Christmas party for local boys last Monday afternoon...