Weekly Tax Policy Review Faces Next Year Budget Strains
The piece surveys 1939-40 budget pressures as states trim budgets while federal expenditures rise by about 1 billion dollars. It outlines four tax revision proposals targeting corporate levies and losses, and notes mounting criticism from business groups about burdens and exemptions. It also compares relief needs across states and highlights international grain and cotton trade dynamics influencing subsidy debates.
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John Public
U. S
Relief: dire conditions in Indianapolis family as rat bites rise
A family led by a Mr Stinger in Indianapolis lives in three rooms of an old butcher shop where rats bite him and a two year old child. Relief in 254 Texas counties provides only federal surplus commodities. one state offers food grants at one fifth of the USDA minimum standard.
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American Petroleum Institute
Standard Oil of Indiana
U. S
Standard Oil
Bennett Champ Clark
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Interstate Commerce Commission
Clark
CAA
Ohio
Atlanta
New York
Mississippi
California
Arkansas
House Appropriations
American Association of Relief Workers
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Indianapolis
Stinger
Texas
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Roosevelt
Pat Harrison
Senate Committee On Finance
Senate
Doughton
House Committee On Ways and Means
Wind shifts in Germany and global notes from a wartime press
Religion presses a ban on Sunday church service broadcasts in Germany with the government declaring radio a state institution not a confessional body. Hungarian politics see boosted Nazi influence after the party’s election victory. Southern farm chiefs expect Louisiana sugarcane land to pivot to artificial rubber production. New York merchants' group notes a rise in five day workweeks.
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Germany
Louisiana
Hungary
Hitler
Business — Merchants’ Association of New York
U S Senator Aims for GOP Nominee But Won’t Seek Re‑election
Puzzle prompts ask which U S senator will accept the Republican presidential nomination but won’t serve a second term if elected. The clue points to a specific figure. readers are invited to check the answer at column bottom.
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U. S
Floyd Roberts
Gallup
Army Recruits Surge As World War Memory Fades
The Army launches a high pressure drive to recruit or reenlist 115000 men in the next year. Regional officers mobilize 18 recruiting stations on wheels, posters, films and radio to reach youth in cities and countryside. The air corps plans the largest expansion with 25180 new men, 17000 of whom are expected to hold a high school diploma for aviation mechanic posts.
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Sam
Air Corps
Army
Middleman Costs and Naval Build Up Highlight 1929 Report
The Twentieth Century Fund priced U S distribution costs at 38 5 billion in 1929 showing wholesalers 18 percent retailers 33 percent manufacturers 24 percent transport 23 percent and miscellaneous 2 percent. The study argues wholesalers were not highly profitable and remain essential. The piece notes a peacetime naval program with 773 million in funding and 74 ships underway including battleships North Carolina and Washington with more ships and capital ships planned but not ready before 1945.
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U. S
John
New York
Twentieth Century Fund
Aonciliary
North Carolina
Washington
South Dakota
Indiana
Massachusetts
Alabama
Answers to Puzzlers and Political Sentiment
Answers to Puzzlers include Sen Arthur Vandenberg and Ignace Paderewski, with Floyd Roberts noted as last year's race winner killed this year. The item adds a poll showing 69 percent say business delays recovery while 63 percent think the New Deal delays it too.
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Arthur Vandenberg
Ignace Paderewski
Floyd Roberts
Gallup
President Roosevelt Reaffirms New Deal in Retail Speech
Washington notes that Roosevelt’s May 22 address to retail merchants may define his 1940 campaign strategy. The speech restates New Deal theories, stresses no backtracking, and champions broad government spending despite inflation fears.
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Washington
Roosevelt
American Retail Federation
Harrison Presses Tax Revision in Roosevelt Talks
The report notes Harrison urged tax revision to ease unfair business taxes and predicted new tax legislation this session. Roosevelt stressed no balanced budget this year or next, signaling continued debt and borrowing. The piece discusses internal Democratic splits and Eccles influence in fiscal policy.
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Harrison
Doughton
Harri
Roosevelt
Democratic Party
McClure’s Magazine revival eyed as 1914 kicks off
The piece notes 57 year old McClure plans to relaunch McClure’s Magazine next September. It recalls his career from Indiana prairie childhood to founding the magazine in 1893 and his long battle for civic righteousness. It mentions Lincoln Steffens Ida Tarbell and other contemporaries and hints at new crowding dragons in the era.
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York
McClure
Lincoln Steffens
Ida Tarbell
United States
Indiana
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Duluth
Chicago
Knox College
Pope Manufacturing Company
Yarl van Doren
van Dyke
Sinclair Lewis
Mr. van Dyke
D. W. Griffith
Messrs. Griffith
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