MELLON PREDICTS $55,000,000 DEFICIT
New York Times. Mar 13, 1924
WASHINGTON, March 12. -- A loss of $450,000,000 in revenue would ensue if the tax revision bill is passed as it stands. Secretary Mellon informed the Senate Finance Committee today.
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$15,589,614 ALLOWED TO MELLON CONCERN
New York Times. Apr 3, 1924
WASHINGTON, April 2. -- Amortization of $15,589,614.29 was allowed the Aluminum Company of America, a so-called Mellon concern, on income taxes for 1918 and 1919, according to official files opened today before the Senate subcommittee investigating the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
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VETO OF TAX ASKED BY MANUFACTURERS
New York Times. May 22, 1924
President Coolidge was called upon in resolutions adopted at the closing session of the three-day convention of the National Association of Manufacturers at the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday to veto the tax reduction measure now in conference between the House and Senate should it be presented to him with the Senate provisions for a surtax on undistributed corporation profits and general inspection of income tax returns.
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AN OUTSTANDING ISSUE
New York Times. Jun 8, 1924
A MILD-MANNERED man in Washington the other day dipped his pen in the inkwell and wrote his name, "Calvin Coolidge," half way down a page bearing some printing. That gave the United States a new general tax law, the Revenue act of 1924, the seventh since 1913.
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NEW "PEEPING TOM" LAW WORRIES THE TAXPAYER
New York Times. Aug 17, 1924
SOME fine day next year all persons who pay income tax to the Federal Government will wake up to find their names, addresses and amounts of tax paid posted in a great list at the office of the district Collector of Internal Revenue, and perhaps also at post offices and other public places.
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TOPICS IN WALL STREET.
New York Times. Oct 25, 1924
There was little change in the character of the stock market yesterday. A firm tone prevailed and stocks generally ended the day with net gains. The market, however, was not without declines, and in some groups, especially in the late afternoon, irregularity developed due to profit-taking sales.
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CHICAGO.
New York Times. Oct 26, 1924
New York's list of income tax payers, with amounts paid, was made available for public inspection Thursday. Newspapers, including The Tribune, printed part of the list. Some printed it in early editions, got cold feet and took it out of later ones. Others left it alone. The newspapers which printed it may be asked by bureaucracy to explain how they got that way.
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SEES MUCH GOOD IN TAX PUBLICITY
New York Times. Nov 16, 1924
Declaring that an immediate revision of the income tax law is necessary to the welfare and development of the country, Charles F. Noyes, President of the Charles F. Noyes Company, realtors, predicted yesterday that the publication of tax lists by THE NEW YORK TIMES and other newspapers would do more to accomplish this end than any other method that could be employed.
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COOLIDGE WOULD END TAX PUBLICITY
New York Times. Nov 22, 1924
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. -- President Coolidge is hopeful that Congress will repeal the publicity features of the income tax law, a spokesman announced today. It was stated further that the President, who regards the publicity of income tax returns as violative of private rights and possibly unconstitutional, would be glad to see a repeal bill passed in the coming session.
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TEST CASE ARGUED ON TAX PUBLICITY
New York Times. Nov 25, 1924
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. -- Arguments on a test income tax publicity case were heard today by Justice Adolph A. Hoehling in Equity Court and taken under advisement.
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COURT TELLS BLAIR TO GIVE TAX DATA
New York Times. Jun 30, 1925
WASHINGTON, June 29. -- Commissioner of Internal Revenue David H. Blair was ordered in a decision in Equity Court today to produce for the Board of Tax Appeals the income tax returns of a dozen companies engaged in the manufacture of metal-working machinery and metal tools.
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QUEEN GIVES $2,000 IN TIPS AT HOTEL
New York Times. Oct 26, 1926
Queen Marie of Rumania distributed between $1,500 and $2,000 in cash gratuities to 150 members of the staff of the Hotel Ambassador, Park Avenue at Fifty-first Street, before she departed from Grand Central Station yesterday morning, the hotel management estimated last night.
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NEW YORK'S 100 NEEDIEST CASES
New York Times. Dec 5, 1926
THE fifteenth annual appeal for The Hundred Neediest Cases is made today. These are the hundred which, above all others in the city, are in want; these are the first call on charity.
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NEEDIEST FUND GETS $12,017 IN ONE DAY
New York Times. Dec 9, 1926
Contributions of $12,017,43 increased the total for the neediest cases yesterday to $35,339,50. Approximately $225,000 is still needed to reach last year's figure of $260,998,26, which provided for 345 of the most unfortunate and deserving families of New York City.
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FUND PUTS SUNSHINE INTO NEEDY HOMES
New York Times. Dec 12, 1926
Contributions of $8,398.75 increased the total for the neediest cases yesterday to $66,181,49. Hundreds of cases are still in need of help. The present total is only a little more than one-quarter of last year's figure of $260,998.26, which provided for 345 cases.
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FOUR $1,000 GIFTS AID CITY'S NEEDIEST
New York Times. Dec 19, 1926
Contributions of $14,663.20 increased the total for the Neediest Cases yesterday to $152,418.96.
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SIX GIVE $500 EACH TO AID THE NEEDIEST
New York Times. Dec 18, 1927
Contributions of $14,341.98 increased the total for the Hundred Neediest Cases yesterday to $92,816.44. This is $45,000 below the figure of $137,755.76 reported on Dec. 18 of last year. It is $188,000 less than the grand total of $280,302.28, which was raised a year ago.
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ON CHRISTMAS, REMEMBER THESE NEEDIEST
New York Times. Dec 25, 1927
THIS Christmas Day finds many a family happier because it has received help or given it through the fund for the Hundred Neediest Cases. For those who have been helped, the aid has meant the difference between despair and hope -- in some instances, between life and death.
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