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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Everybody would like a pay-as-you-go policy. The virtually insuperable problem: where to get the money. Only two 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: An Awful Lot of Money | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

Last June, a Yale law student named Robert Douglas Stuart Jr. deplored Yale University President Charles Seymour's espousal of open aid to the Allies, believing it would lead the U. S. into war. Furthermore, he thought Seymour's views were not those of the student body and got up a poll showing 3-to-1 on his side. General Robert E. Wood (Sears, Roebuck) heard of the Yalemen's activities, asked Stuart to visit him. Out of their conversation grew the America First Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: America First | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...disclosed that she got her start in burlesque because she always wanted to dance, but "thought clothes were encumbering". Her mind was made up when an astrologer revealed that she was born under the sign Sagittarius, which means she is frank, open, and "doesn't like to hid things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BURLESQUE QUEEN BARES ALL DURING NETWORK PROGRAM | 12/20/1940 | See Source »

...Library will remain open during the vacation from 9 o'clock to 5:30 o'clock on Mondays through Fridays with the exceptions of Christmas and New Year's Days. This Saturday and on Saturday, January 4, it will be open only in the morning and will close at 1 o'clock but on Saturday, December 28 it will stay open until 5:30 o'clock but no books can be taken out after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIBRARY WILL STAY OPEN FOR RECESS | 12/18/1940 | See Source »

...even in its present form is Ec A intended to complete the theoretical groundwork of the concentrator. For that purpose the Department offers two basic courses in theory--Ec 2a, a half-year course, and Ec 1, open only to candidates for Honors. While 2a is too dull to be controversial, Ec 1 is a sprightly study in confusion. Discussion is lively and disorderly; agricultural tractors are freely converted into printing presses; and everybody catches on just in time to earn the expected A or B. Anchored only to the graphs on the blackboard, Ec 1 floats freely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EC DEPARTMENT | 12/17/1940 | See Source »

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