Heritage; 46; Beardsley Ruml. Part 1
- Series
- Heritage
- Episode Number
- 46
- Episode
- Beardsley Ruml. Part 1
- Producing Organization
- WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
- Contributing Organization
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/512-125q815f0z
- NOLA Code
- HERG
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Episodes 46 - 49 of Heritage feature Mr. Beardsley Ruml, former chairman of the board of the R.H. Macy Company Inc., originator of the pay-as-you-go withholding tax, trustee of Dartmouth College, economic advisor to the government of Puerto Rico, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York City and trustee of the Committee for Economic Development. He is joined by Harry Rudick, attorney and Professor at Law at New York University, and Dr. Donald Morrison, provost of Dartmouth College. Beardsley Ruml is probably best known as the originator of the pay-as-you-go US Withholding Tax. In this episode, Mr. Ruml and his guests, Mr. Harry J. Rudick and Dr. Donald Harvard Morrison, discuss how this tax came into being, the objectives of this new tax experiment, the attitudes of the administration and the public toward the tax, and the Treasury Department opposition to the tax. Also in this program they discuss tax expenditures, free enterprise and initiative, research and taxation, excise taxes and discrimination, and the function of taxes in a fiscal policy. Beardsley Ruml, former chairman of the board of the RH Macy Company, Inc., originator of the pay-as-you-go withholding tax, trustee of Dartmouth College, economic advisor to the government of Puerto Rico and author of Tomorrows Business, received his Bachelor of Science degree from Dartmouth College in 1915 and his doctoral degree from the University of Chicago in 1917. Other offices which Mr. Ruml has held include trustee, Museum of Modern Art, Fisk University; trustee, Committee for Economic Development; and former chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of New York City. From 1931 to 1933 he was Dean of the Social Science division and Professor of Education at the University of Chicago. Harry J. Rudick, attorney and Professor of Law at New York University, was graduated from New York University in 1921 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He received his law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1927. He is a partner in the law firm of Lord, Day and Lord in New York City. He has been a member of the advisory board, Tax Institute, Inc.; a member of the advisory committee on estate and gift taxes, Committee of Economic Development; a member of the American Law Institute, Am.; a member of the National Planning Association and the New York State Bar Association. Dr. Donald Harvard Morrison, provost of Dartmouth College, received his Bachelor of Arts degree from West Virginia University in 1936, his Master of Arts degree from Princeton in 1939 and his doctor of philosophy degree there in 1941. He was director of the Bureau of Government Research, director of the office of defense history and budget examiner, administrative analyst for the United States Bureau of the Budget. He served as chairman of the committee on the utilization of college teaching resources for The Fund for the Advancement of Education in 1956. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- Through "Heritage," a selected group of prominent persons individually address themselves to broad areas of subject matter in fields where they are particularly qualified to speak. Rather than being a simple series of conventional pattern, this is a "series of series," where each guest appears on several episode in several formats (i.e. straight talk, interview, talk with small group, conversation). This series totaling 131 half-hour episodes was originally recorded on various formats including film and videotape. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1958-05-04
- Asset type
- Episode
- Rights
- Published Work: This work was offered for sale and/or rent in 1960.
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Guest: Morrison, Donald Harvard
Guest: Rudick, Harry
Host: Ruml, Beardsley
Producing Organization: WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2303031-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2303031-2 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
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Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
Identifier: [request film based on title] (Indiana University)
Format: 16mm film
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Heritage; 46; Beardsley Ruml. Part 1,” 1958-05-04, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 18, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-125q815f0z.
- MLA: “Heritage; 46; Beardsley Ruml. Part 1.” 1958-05-04. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 18, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-125q815f0z>.
- APA: Heritage; 46; Beardsley Ruml. Part 1. Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-125q815f0z