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...present act. One of the chief of these changes is a proposal to create a traveling Board of Tax Appeals of from 7 to 28 members appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury and serving for ten years at salaries of $10,000 a year. This arrangement would avoid the necessity of taking tax appeals to Washington...
...Hjalmar Schacht, new President of the Reischbank (TIME, Dec. "31), was not in any hurry to assume his duties. Having been elected in opposition to the wishes of the Board of Managers of the Bank, he was reported to be anxious to avoid the machinations which the friends of Dr. Helffrich, the candidate of the Board, were preparing...
Several alterations in schedules were approved, notably the change in the date of the Yale Dual Track Meet to June 7 to avoid conflict with the Olympic tryouts. This change is subject to the agreement of the Yale authorities. It was also voted to change the dates of the baseball games with Princeton, so that the game in Princeton would be played on May 17 and the one in Cambridge on May 24. This vote was taken at the request of Princeton on account of the fact that the Childs Cup Race is to be held at Princeton...
...through the motions. I remember how I felt after I had played 102 weeks in 'Little Johnny Jones'. The very sound of the overture made me sick. I used to say 'My God, have I got to go through with this again!' That is what I am trying to avoid in my new shows, because it is bound to be noticed by the audience, and as I said before, it's the box-office that reveals a show's success...
...peace." (The whole Chamber, including the Communists, cheered this pronouncement. ) "Your unanimous agreement against the return of the Hohenzollerns will be known this evening throughout the world. . . . I ask you to pass judgment on the attitude of a Government which would have preferred immediate, rapid sanctions, but which, to avoid a break with the Allies, preferred to adopt their point of view...