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...Received a subcommittee's report to legalize 4% beer to raise $347,000,000 in revenue, stimulate business, relieve unemployment...
...that question the opposition had no good answer. One group proposed a beer tax. Another favored a system of taxes on checks, legal documents, radios, luxuries, motor vehicles et al. Sales tax objectors, however, were so vociferous that Mr. Crisp decided to prepare some "perfecting amendments" which make exemptions here & there. Secretary of the Treasury Mills hurried to the Capitol, threw the solid support of the Administration behind the tax bill...
...known as the Demagogue Club . . . our slogan is Safety First. . . . Taxes are always unacceptable, never popular, always cost political strength. It's easy for us to vote NO. . . . Some of us just demagogue on anything that happens to come along. . . . We have our farm section . . . our oil friends . . . our beer group. . . . The soldier group of the Demagogue Club . . . is raring to take $1,800,000,000 of the people's money and distribute it among the soldiers. . . . These fellows all know they are guilty and not consistent for one-tenth of a second. . . . But it takes the combined courage...
Capone talked about other things besides the Lindbergh baby. He discussed the Chicago beer situation, told how he had given employment to "at least 300 men . . . in the harmless beer racket." He dwelt upon the injustice of his incarceration and Editor Brisbane printed it. For Hearstreaders who wondered about Capone's appearance, Editor Brisbane recommended a study of the equestrian statue of Colleoni* in the Chicago Art Institute on Michigan Boulevard...
...once. Obviously heir to Iron McNamara, Georgetti was once pierced by an eight-inch splinter which he sent to his father to be exhibited. He earns $28,000 per year, has a barber shave him every day of the race, frequently dines on rice, lobster and beer with Tenor Beniamino Gigli of the Metropolitan Opera Company...