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...Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, House Ways and Means Committee chief. Mr. Doughton, hoary expert at turnip-bleeding, said curtly that he thought the turnips could take it. To Mr. Doughton this week, from Henry Morgenthau, came the Treasury's recommendations. They included a hike in the basic income-tax rate of 2.2 to 6.6 per cent, lower exemptions, surtaxes on all incomes over...
Credit was given Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine whose name means "one who has the power over horses," for being the first "horse doctor" to realize the basic facts about the human organism, but the doctor of ancient Greece took a rapping for being too idealistic "in striving for the preservation of human life no matter how miserable and useless...
...spite of the intensive acceleration of work in national defense industries, little if any increase is expected in the ROTC enrollment for 1941-42. The basic courses may be opened to a few more students, but this increase is a result of the course's normal growth rather than present world conditions...
...policy of the Department," said Lt.-Colonel Henry D. Jay, assistant professor of Military Science and Tactics, "to give military training to as many basic course students as possible, but registration in the advanced course is definitely limited by the number of qualified instructors available and the facilities necessary for expansion...
Strictly, a square dance is a quadrille, descended by way of England from the early French court ballet. The quadrille, with its basic pattern of four couples forming a hollow square, spread from the original colonies throughout the land, acquired many a variant in technique and nomenclature. But everywhere the dance has a caller, an inventive, leather-lunged, cool-headed master of ceremonies who calls out the figures-swing your partner, dose-do (dos-a-dos or back to back), allemande, chassez (sashay), promenade, etc. As anyone knows who has ever tried it without prior training, a "set" of three...