Tax Study Seeks Broad Tax Reform to Spur Investment
A column reflects on Fortune Magazine and Brookings Institution studies arguing that tax reform should focus on the type of taxes rather than total burden. It endorses simpler corporate taxes, broader loss deductions, and removal of exemptions to mobilize savings for productive investment, noting Canada’s recent expansion incentives.
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Fortuni Magazine
Brookings Institution
Fortune Round-Tailors
Tacoma
Fortune
Broykings Institution
Congress
Youth American Style 4-H enrollments hit 1 286 029 in 1996
The 4-H Clubs report a new high of 1 286 029 members in 1996, reaching over 40 percent of rural youths aged 10 to 21. The movement emphasizes learning by doing through projects like raising livestock, gardening, and sewing, with about three quarters of projects completed and contributing to rising rural standards.
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Department of Agriculture
United States
Tips on How the Republican Party Can Win in 1940
An editorial in the Sioux City Tribune analyzes potential candidates Dewey Taft and Vandenberg and warns against Hooverian repeats. It argues for a platform aligned with Americanism, praising the 1938 Republican platform as the best expression yet.
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South Dakota
Sioux City
The Woman's Viewpoint by Ruth Millett
A reader engagement piece by Ruth Millett challenges men to examine their behavior toward women. It lists ten questions about social respect, etiquette, and attitudes, suggesting that score results reveal how attractive they are as partners and allies in daily life.
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Ruth Millett
Mr. Male
WPA economy plans spark brief Indiana district merger
A May plan to consolidate two Indiana WPA districts into one in Indianapolis was announced to save 53 484 annually but quickly reversed by WPA state headquarters. The move drew political comment from Senator Minton and criticism over potential job losses and federal relief funding cuts.
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Washington
WPA
Indiana
Roosevelt
Congress
Jennings
New Albany
Marion
Indianapolis
House Appropriations Committee
Sherman Minton
Minton
Senator Minton
Bac
Harrington
Senator Mington
Col. Harrington
Mr. Roosevelt
Diverse Quotes on Society and Policy From Notable Figures
A collection of remarks spans marriage insight from Dr. Leland Foster Wood to public finance views by Canada’s Finance Minister Charles Dunning. Actress Kitty Carlisle advocates dressing for the occasion while General Council Charles Fahy comments on Wagner labor law before Senate committees.
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Leland Foster Wood
Council of Churches
Alwys
Kitty Carlisle
Charles Dunning
Canada
General Council
Charles Fahy
National Labor Relations Board
Senate
Diary of a Central S D Farat Woman An April 26 entry
A Central S D Farat Woman records a day on the farm with chores and reflections on friendship, aging, and family. She quotes a Towne poem about vanished friends, notes small domestic mishaps, and ends with a resolute, hopeful tone about daily duties and joy in small gains.
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Tediuy
Charles Hanson Towne
Meni
Morrow
Tsay
Jim
Vall
Cothers
Twilight Danger at Daily Drive Time Warns Detroit Drivers
The Detroit News editorial notes that most motor accidents occur between 4 and 8 p m during twilight. Factors include crowded roads as workers return home, driver fatigue and preoccupation, and gradually worsening visibility. The piece urges drivers to fix in mind that twilight appears safe but is hazardous.
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Detroit News
Map Puzzle Outline From Past Radio Listing
Puzzle titled Outline Map asks solvers to fill horizontal and vertical clues about a South American country and its features, with numerous names, terms, and program listings interspersed. It includes references to presidents, flora, animals, cheeses, and radio time slots, blending geography with a broadcast schedule.
20 Years Ago In Huron Center Pavilion Progress
Workmen pressed to set center poles for the Irons canvas dance pavilion under Mr Irons. Pavilion ready in two to three weeks with regular dances to follow. Local entertainment listings include Fedora at Bijou with Pauline Frederick, The Dawn of a Tomorrow, The Highest Trump, The Social Secretary, and Tom Saunders comedy On! On! Eve. Local residents A H Schultz and W B Alger among returnees. pennies gain prominence as luxury tax takes effect. Three Huronites expected to return with American army divisions from France: Walter Bachman, Elmer Olson, and Jack Lambert.
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Irons
Fedora
Pauline Frederick
Mary Pick
Rford
Lounge
Earle William
Strand
Norma Talmadge
Clint
Bessie Robins
Tom Saunder
Grand Opera House
W. B. Alger
Minneapolis
Wessington
Huron
Wallace Newton
California
A. H. Schultz
France
United States
Walter J. Bachman
Elmer F. Olson
Comporal Jackson Lambert
Radio Features by c EL Butterfield Central Standard Time
Radio schedule listing Alfred M Landon 1936 Republican candidate discussing world peace on NBC WIZ from Kansas City. Evening programs include Emanuel Celler John W McCormack on tax revision, War Propaganda in U S, and a long sequence of music and talk shows across NBC CBS and Mutual networks with various hosts and programs.
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C. EL Butterfield
New York
Alfred M. Landon
Methodist Episcopal World Fence Commission
Wiz-Nbc
Kansas City
WEAF
NBC
Eimanuel Celler
John W. McCormack
One Man's Family
Fred Allen
Kay Kyser
Daniel A. Reed
U.S
WABC
CBS
Jim McWilliams
Paul Whiteman
Theater of Stars
Cincinnati
Wjiz-Nbc
Ransom Sherman
Funeral rites held for C A Lightle in Wellington Springs
Funeral services were held at Valentine funeral parlors in Wellington Springs for C A Lightle who was found dead Monday in the city park. The county coroner ruled death a self inflicted throat cut. He came to Wellington Springs about two years ago and is survived by a son, Robert.
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Senator Vandenberg
Saturday Evening Post
Chicago Tribune
Vandenberg
Michigan
Dell
C. H. Lightle
Wellington Springs
Valentine
Weslington Springs
C. A. Lightle
Lightle
Wessington Springs
Robert
Open Forum on pensions and moral duties to parents
A correspondent criticizes S. H. McCay’s pension policy, questions the aim to drop 2000 pensioners, and laments the equation of charity with financialism. The letter cites poems, quotes from Brain the Waco iconoclast, and parodies responses to social and economic woes, proposing cucumbers as a humorous antidote and pondering legal inducements to adoption of elderly parents.
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S. H. McCay
Mead
Tizerville
Flu City
Barner Clark
South Dakota
Waco
Texas
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