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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shamed by the House's despatch on tax reduction, the Senate began an attempt at imitation. Finance Committee approved H. J. Res. 133 quickly, unanimously. Out upon the Senate floor, however, it stirred old dissensions. Republican Leader Watson wanted to set aside the tariff bill for the tax bill. Others clamored for a completion of the tariff wool schedules first. Western Senators scowled at reduction of the corporation tax, beneficial chiefly to eastern industry. Senator Couzens of Michigan complained that the consumer, having already paid the 1929 tax to corporations, would not profit by that phase...
Scholars from the Leyton County High School stood in a respectful row last week to receive the official inspection of His Royal Highness Edward of Wales. As H. R. H. passed down the line, one Geoffrey Gill, 15, piped: "Please, Sir, mayn't I have your autograph...
...Reeve has been called (last year by Town & Country) "The leading fox hunter of the leading fox hunting city in the country." Except for a few weeks many years ago when he substituted at Radnor he has never been a master of foxhounds. But he knows what M. F. H.'s like and how ordinary foxcatchers should comport themselves. Points and excerpts from his primer...
...H. ride to covertside alone. "Keep at least a hundred feet behind him; then if a hound is emptying itself, you won't be so likely to override...
...duck decoys first gave Chris Smith the idea for a motorboat that would be short, broad, flat so as to ride on top of the water instead of cutting through it. This revolutionary design, now largely used in speed boats, produced the first boats to make 60 m. p. h. in a contest. In designing his early boats, Chris Smith used no blue prints. Instead, he carved out a small wooden model of the hull. With this in his pocket he went to nearby Walpole Island, picked out a likely looking tree for his boat, and carefully watched over...