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December 16, 1927

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HOUSE PASSES NEW TAX BILL WITH $289,765,000 REDUCTION, DESPITE LEADERS' APPEALS; AMENDMENTS GO THROUGH Democrats Win Victory With Help of Group of Republicans. ROLL-CALLS ROUT LEADERS High Point Reached With Vote of 245 to 151 on Repeal of Automobile Tax. FINAL SHOWDOWN 366 TO 24 Record Vote Is Taken After Old Guard Fails to Have Bill Recommitted. HOUSE BILL CUTS TAXES $289,765,000

By Special to The New York Times

House passes bill calling for $289,765,000 cut; called Dem victory as Sec Mellon's recommendations are rejected

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Peter Dickinson

1927Peter Dickinson, Rhodesian-English author and poet (died 2015)[†]

Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL was an English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories.

Randall Garrett

1927Randall Garrett, American author and poet (died 1987)[†]

Gordon Randall Phillip David Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and '60s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on two novels about men from Earth disrupting a peaceful agrarian civilization on an alien planet.