Believe Latest Tax Reduction Plan Will Pass The House
Political optimism centers on a roughly 80 percent cut in low tax brackets. The House Ways and Means Committee meets behind closed doors to review the bill with Harold Knutson predicting a party line vote. The plan proposes a 30 percent cut for those with taxable income under 1,000 after exemptions, 20 percent for under 302,000, and 19 to 15 percent for higher incomes. Europe discussion includes a Hale Boggs resolution urging Congress to back a United States of Europe.
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Hale Boggs
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Federation dream and German American ties stir HUAC probes
Chronicle-Telegram reports Boggs on a federated Europe once seeming idle but now seen as essential. Rep Doh. Ale Duwell of Pa says German American meeting in New York felt like a rebirth of the German American Bund, noting the salute was missing but ideologies persisted. HUAC has called a subcommittee to probe anti group activity. Senate Democrats seek to blunt a Republican portal pay bid with a final vote due. A report on job discrimination follows.
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Bund
House Un-American Activities Committee
Portal
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Senate
Discrimination report spurs permanent FERC plan
The Fair Employment Practices committee backs legislation to establish a permanent Federal Economic Reform Council to curb an unchecked revival of discrimination seen as harming diplomatic ties. The wartime gains of Negro, Mexican American, and Jewish workers are reported as fading. On tax, Knutson’s flat rate proposal shifts to a 20 percent cut up to 302000 a year, with 24 million of 48 million filers expected to benefit per Rep. Robert W. Kean.
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Knulson
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GOP
Robert W. Kean
Ways and Means Committee
Advocacy Letters Cite Greek Election Allegations Amid US Debate
Voice Of The People presents letters arguing the Greek plebiscite was rigged. A Cleveland Plain Dealer correspondent describes violence against voters and a mocked democracy, linking royalist bands to a push for monarchic rule amid broader disenfranchisement claims. The writer urges scrutiny by President Truman and British officials.
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Grerk
Robert Conway
Spyros Sourlas
Spyros Kalambalikis
Gestapo
Seymour Frelden
Cleveland Plait
Editoriathe
Crates
Tts
Trumain
No Intention Af Trying To Break Union Says Herbert
Columbus Ohio Gov Thomas Herbert assured the Ohio Federation of Labor executive committee that a state administration has no plan to break a union. He spoke to a labor committee amid a 300 worker strike at the State Highway Department over wage cuts and layoffs blamed on substitutions and payroll swelling. He said no worker was fired for union activity and offered to investigate discrimination claims under Civil Service Commission rules.
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