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March 25, 1939

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War Levy Measure Read Through By Only 10 of 50 Listed Senators; Four of These Are the Authors, and They Disagree on 'Escape Clause'--One Sponsor States 'Almost Confiscatory' Aim

By Frederick R. Barkley Special To the New York Times

WASHINGTON, March 24.--Of the fifty Senators listed as sponsors of the war profits tax measure when it was introduced in the Senate Tuesday by Senator Bone of Washington, only six besides the four real authors of the bill would say today that they had actually read it through.

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Notable Births

Toni Cade Bambara

1939Toni Cade Bambara, American author, academic, and activist (died 1995)[โ€ ]

Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade, was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor.

D. C. Fontana

1939D. C. Fontana, American screenwriter and producer (died 2019)[โ€ ]

Dorothy Catherine Fontana was an American television script writer and story editor, best known for her work on the original Star Trek series.