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...been doing almost incessantly for the past fortnight in the effort to hurry the U. S. Senate to the end of its year's business Vice President Garner was suddenly interrupted late one afternoon last week. On the point of putting through, without debate, a bill to plug income-tax loopholes, the Vice President found himself obliged by Senate rules to give the floor to Lewis Schwellenbach of Washington, who said...
...Passed, 173-to-0, the "Plug the Tax-Loophole" Bill, which would place a 65% to 75% levy on personal holding companies, including yachts and racing stables and foreign holding companies; require officers and directors of foreign holding companies to file returns every month; apply regular surtax levies instead of a flat 10% to nonresident aliens' income from this country, on incomes exceeding $21,600. Additional revenue expected: 50 to 100 millions...
...Teachers College pedagogs, who showed instant enthusiasm for his songs and will no doubt plug them tirelessly this winter, Mr. Caesar said: "Maybe these songs of safety will get me to Heaven when my hi-de-ho songs would be sure to send me to a hotter region...
...Having long since proved himself Radio's No. 1 drawing card, handsome Franklin D. Roosevelt last week put in a plug for television. For the opening of NBC's new Washington studios he wrote: "It is not within the province of reactionaries to put obstacles in the way of orderly development. . . . Indeed it may not be long before radio will make it possible for us to visualize at the breakfast table the front pages of daily newspapers or news reports...
...Gershwin left school to plug songs for Jerome Remick & Sons. He made $15 a week. Harry Von Tilzer brought out Gershwin's first song, a complaint entitled When You Want 'em, You Can't Get 'em; When You Got 'em, You Don't Want 'em. He went into vaudeville accompanying Louise Dresser, and later, Nora Bayes. Vivienne Segal plugged his You-oo Just You and There's More to a Kiss Than...