Tax policy stalls as Congress delays on excess profits tax
Business leaders press for tax reform while Congress delays the excess profits tax repeal and shifts focus to the Fordney tariff. Senators Smoot and Penrose warn the timing may push taxation into the next session as labor and farm groups oppose new taxes.
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Harding
Congress
House
Penrose
Republican Party
Washington
New England
Committee On
Senate
Ber
Committee On Finance
Smoot
Army
Navy
United States
Organized Labor
Fordney
Ask Clemency for Rioters
A petition to President Harding seeks executive clemency for members of the 2th Infantry imprisoned at Leavenworth for the Houston riots of August 1917. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People authorized circulating the petition to obtain 100000 signatures. Dr W E B Dubois announced plans to appeal to the League of Nations for internationalization of Africa.
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Detroit
Harding
2Th Infantry
Leavenworth
Houston
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
W. E. B. Dubois
New York
Pan-American Congress
League of Nations
Fragmentary Quotation on Alliances and Disarmament
A clipped line weighs the idea of coordinating questions of alliances with broader aims such as disarmament. The passage hints at consulting larger questions rather than narrow interests.
Aspirin Bayer Warning Ad Promises Genuine Product
An old warning ad stresses that only Bayer labeled aspirin on the package or tablets is genuine and safe as prescribed for twenty one years. It notes aspirin usefulness for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism and pain and mentions Bayer aspirin sold by all druggists in tins of 12 or bottles of 24.
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Bayer
Eighth Hart Private Hospital Nurses Graduate in 1921
Eight nurses received diplomas at the Roxbury Masonic Temple for the Hart Private Hospital 1921 class. Dr Edward M Plummer presented the diplomas as graduates were praised for nursing character and wartime service. Attending were 46 alumnae and hospital faculty including Mrs Bertha Hart Burt and Dr Elizabeth Naylor.
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Roxbury Masonic Temple
Hart Private Hospital
Edward M. Plummer
Tufts Medical College
Thomas L. Green
Allan A. Rideout
Blaney Memorial Baptist Church
Dorchester
Harold W. Baker
Boston seeks jail breaker George Lavigne from Maine
Boston officers track George Lavigne alias George Harper who escaped Deer Island March 1 by swimming Shirley Gut. He was arrested in Old Orchard Maine yesterday after working in a garage. Lavigne had a 12 month Deer Island sentence for automobile larceny.
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Boston
Old Orchard
George Lavigne
George Harper
Deer Island
Lavigne
Harper
Elmer E. Gorgins
Biddeford
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Coolidge
Watson
Treadway
Congressman Treadway
Massachusetts
Ways and Means
Senator Smoot
Utah
Thayer McNett Co
Temple
24Th Infantry
Sore Sdifin
Juvenile Sectionsjordan Marsh Company
Oliver Twist
Voralis
Gingham
Rekin
Pekin
Oorgandies
Iadit Creaa
Trim
Hart Hospital
Masonic Temple
Americas
Physic
Pluto
P. O
Essex Station
Voile
Val
Real
Louis ‘Heels
Russia
Chambray
Hamburg
Jordan
Marsh Company
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