Revision of Tax Bill Substantially Complete in Senate
Senate finance committee completed revision of the war revenue bill and adopted amendments to raise six billions in 1919. The panel, by party line vote, approved Chairman Simmons plan to raise four billion in 1920 by lowering individual and corporate income rates, scrapping the war profits tax, and cutting excess profits rates.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Simmons
Internal Revenue ‘Bureau
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Republican plan blocks tax cuts as revenue fears grow
The seven Republicans vote against a Democratic plan to cut income taxes and alter wartime levies, while the administration anticipates failure to enact the measure by January 1. The old law would raise revenue to about 4 billion, with new forms for taxpayers to report income.
Recuperative diet noted for influenza recovery
A brief item highlights Hore lick's Malted Milk as a very digestible recuperative diet for influenza patients, suggesting its suitability for aiding convalescence in illness.
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Horelick
Advét
Guilt of Germany Proven by Bavarian Telegrams
British newspapers report Bavarian Telegrams published before World War I prove Germany and Austria guilt, confirming long denial by Berlin and Munich officials.
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London
British Wireless Service
Bavaria
Berlin
Munich
Germany
Austria
German Protest Over Bavarian Papers Publication
Berlin reports the German foreign ministry protests the Bavarian government publishing pre war documents. Bavarian delegates at Berne advised publishing the papers on Clemenceau's suggestion to confess Germany's guilt to hasten peace with Entente nations.
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Berlin
Copenhagen
Foreign Ministry
Berne
Clemenceau
France
Germany
Turks Cheer British Force In Constantinople At Barracks
British troops disembarked from ships and marched to the British embassy and barracks in the city. The Sultan grants two palaces a kiosk and a farm to orphans on the outskirts. Rabbi Nacom travels to Washington to push for American diplomatic representation for Turkey claims. A British Red Cross ship and a transport sail to London with 8000 sick and prisoners. Civil trial rights under the Armenian patriarchate restored though the patriarch remains banished. Coal shortage hampers interior traffic and demobilization efforts.
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Constantinople
Associated Press
Adam Block
High Commission
Constantinola
Rabbi Nacom
Turkey
Washington
Germany
British Red Cross
London
Mesopotamia
No Drop in Wage Scale Says Walsh
Frank P. Walsh of the National War Labor Board asserted labor must not return to prewar wages and hours. He warned costs of necessities will not fall to prewar levels within five years and urged maintaining current wage standards for a fair return amid gradual living-cost reductions.
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Washington
Frank P. Walsh
National War Labor Board
Walsh
Eastern Steamship lines to restore Boston Portland service
Portland, Me November 27 Herbert A Clay local representative of the Eastern Steamship lines announced plans to reinstate daily service in each direction on the Boston Portland line by early April. He said other east of Boston services may return to near pre war levels in the coming spring.
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Portland
Eastern Steamship Lines
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