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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1943
Page
10
Washington debates tax reform emphasizing sales tax to reach all earners and curb inflation. Critics say current policy uses taxes to influence politics and protect high brackets. Proposals argue income tax has peaked and that low-wage collectors suffer high collection costs under the present system.
Walter A Jessup presents a graphic in the Carnegie Corporation annual report showing income at three-fifths of a decade earlier and trustees facing fewer grants. To maintain stability the endowment would need about 2 million dollars, reducing private research aid to one third, while critics urge government action or broader philanthropy.
The fragment argues education and arts suffer under political control and WPA influence. It contrasts private endowed colleges with public programs and questions the quality of art and music funded by federal grants versus artists guided by political taste.
Louis Fischer’s Empire argues British India cannot be forcefully handed to India after the war and warns against an American blueprint for the world. The piece urges stopping slogans, facing realities, and refusing to impose quick solutions or risk alliance with Britain to avoid a future world conflict.
A 1930s editorial argues Republicans risk their chance at the presidency by internal scheming. It contends factional plots favoring a pliant candidate threaten the party, suggesting Willkie or Dewey as potential nominees while warning such moves could aid Roosevelt for a fourth term.
Secretary Knox says US now ready to launch full campaign against Japan after steady attrition. Japanese broadcasts mix boasts with admissions of difficulties, signaling morale shifts and recognition of American strength. Both sides stress strengthening positions and sacrifices ahead, with the U.S. poised for a general advance and Japan facing mounting strains.
The article condemns Japanese gas warfare in central China citing prisoner testimony about tear and sneeze gases and warnings of heavier agents. It argues for retaliation and describes Japan as barbarous and uncivilized, while noting Rommel’s retreat toward Copenhagen and mocking headlines about soldiers buying lingerie.
Local readers discuss signed letters preserving anonymity in The Record Newspapers, wartime taxes, and support for soldiers. A Troy reader laments political fights hindering soldiers home for Christmas, while a Troy incident urges curb on double parking to improve transit and snow plow operations.
Pegler criticizes a Supreme Court decision that allows unions to defame and damage law abiding businesses under pretense of labor disputes. He recalls the carpenters case and argues Congress never intended to grant such rights to lie or boycott. He warns of threats to liberty and calls out the justices for endorsing “dirty work” by unions allied with the New Deal.
Colburn Blake of Wheatfield, the second motorist convicted under the Niagara County negligence law, began a one to three year sentence for negligent automobile operation that fatally injured two girls.
Washington reports State Department and Treasury conferences over Argentina policy. Pro Nazi Argentine officers consolidated power on June 4 after a coup backed by Germany. Generals Pertine and Perrone lead a security State with Gestapo tactics, suppressing unions, arresting dissidents, and shielding Nazi influence while U S authorities debate freezing gold outflow.
A concise feature explains syllable emphasis in common words and foreign names, listing examples such as authoritative initiative interpretative cooperative and operative. It includes varied language forms and pronunciations for Jam and Guilielmus, with notes on how boys might be called Bik and a plea to obtain a business English pamphlet via stamped envelope to Frank Colby.
Washington business leaders contend current wartime renegotiation provisions fail to curb profits and risk undermining free enterprise. They argue exemptions weaken the plan to extract big profits from war production and press the Senate finance committee to fix the mechanism. The piece notes haste in munition output prevents accurate cost setting and cites ongoing controversy over renegotiation.
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