''As far as I am concerned, and my family and my wife, who are wealthy people, there has been provided $50,000,000,000 in tax-exempt securities in which we can invest our money and pay no part toward the support of the Government. I think that is a pernicious system." With this as a jumping-off point Doris Duke's husband, James Henry Roberts Cromwell, proceeded to tell the House Ways & Means Committee how to reform the U. S. tax system. He had flown straight from Honolulu and was fairly bursting with ideas. He wanted to...
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