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Show COURT UPHOLDS SILVER PROFITS WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 11 1!' The Supreme Court today kept Ihe New Deal's seasonal record In the high tribunal clean of reverses re-verses when it unanimously upheld up-held the retroactive silver profits tax. The retroactive profits tax was imposed in 1 034 along with the New Deal silver purchase act. It was intended to recover 50 per cent of the profits of silver speculators in the period immediately immedi-ately prior to passage of the act. By upholding the government, the court continued the trend of the year which has been marked by no decisions striking down New Deal laws. In previous sessions ses-sions one administration measure alter another fell before the court's rulings. |