Bigger Tax Staff Urged by Knutson
Rep. Knutson urged expanding the tax collection workforce and funding to chase about $5 billion in uncollected taxes dating to war years. He chairs the Ways and Means Committee and backs a $4.8 billion income tax reduction bill. He called for implementing a specialist panel’s plan for large IRS expansion and reorganization.
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Knutson
Tax Framing House
Ways and Means
Treasury
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Internal Revenue Bureau
Senate panel OKs 640 million for waterways program
The Senate appropriations committee approved 640,253,200 for waterways in the year starting July 1 by a 16 to 3 vote. The plan, $101,877,900 above House approval for the Army Corps of Engineers, remains subject to Senate action and possible secession to strip 200 million from the total per minority objections.
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House
Army Corps of Engineers
Bridges
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R.mich
Reed
Reifanj
Boeing Strike Mediated as 14 000 Mechanics Idle
Federal mediators held exploratory talks in Seattle to end a Boeing strike affecting 14 000 mechanics and halting production on 300 military and commercial aircraft orders worth over 200 million dollars. Negotiations occurred separately with company officials and Lodge 751 of the Independent Aero-Mechanics Union with no immediate settlement prospects.
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WEI Federal
Boeing
Lodge 751
Independent
Aero-Mechanics
Republicans Press Against Czech Tariff Reductions
Washington reports show Angry House Republicans seek to block administration tariff cuts granted to Czechoslovakia by President Truman. Rep Harness drafts a resolution urging Ways and Means to restart hearings on extending the reciprocal trade act. State Department notes legal obligation to honor October promises amid Geneva talks with other nations. Main Czech cuts target household goods while Prague lowered duties on select American products.
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Harness
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U S Planes to Aid Last Rites for Roxas
Manila reports U S fighters will fly over Manila north cemetery during the burial of President Manuel Roxas on Sunday. The planes are the 18th Fighter Group, the same unit that performed at Clark Field on April 15 the day Roxas fell fatally ill.
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UPA
U. S
Manuel Roxas
Roxas
Clark Field
Taft Housing Bill Faces Rough Going in House
Taft and allies push a broad housing program through Congress while Senate passage sparks conflict over a 500,000 unit public housing provision. House hearings set for May 3 as members debate welfare, subsidies, and the balance of public housing with taxpayer funds.
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Wolcott
ReMich
Frederick C. Smith
Gia
Anot Banking Committee
Fletcher
Calif
Douglas
Helen Gahagan Douglas
D.calif
Senate
Ely
Ohio
Etlender
D.la
Wagner
D-N.y
Universal Service Plan Proposed if War Recurs
Washington April 23 The Senate war Investigating committee urges study of universal service to mobilize industry for another war. The report warns the nation may be an arsenal and battlefield again and calls for new methods to curb unfair profits and to consider legislation implementing industrial mobilization, noting past reliance on outdated 1916 authority.
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Congress
Senate War Investigating Committee
Universal Service
Roosevelt
Arabs May Offer Plan of Plebiscite
In Philadelphia on April 23, Isa Nekhieh of the Arab delegation said a plebiscite proposal to decide Holy Land status will be presented to the United Nations within days. Nekhieh criticized the original partition plan as a compromise favoring a Zionist minority allied with the White House.
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Holy Land
United Nations
Isa Nekhieh
Executives’ Association of Philadelphia
Naektileh
Arab Higher Committee For Palestine
White House
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