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Deadly Sport. In Wisconsin, where the deer season was at its height, hunters shot at everything that moved, including each other. In five days, 14 hunters were dead - five by gunshot wounds, nine by heart attack - and many another woods man was grazed by bullets. William Brown spent eight days in Michigan's upper peninsula, trying to get a shot at a deer; on the way home, he ran down and killed an eight-point buck with his automobile. At Boulder Junction, Wis., a rifle bullet crashed through a school bus and the trigger-happy hunter explained that...
...press exploded with charges that the shooting was obviously political, because the bandits failed to take money from either the cash register or the Ukrainians. Lev I. Medved, a physician who heads the Ukraine's delegation to ECOSOC, said that Stadnik had been shot by a dum-dum bullet (contrary to The Hague Convention governing civilized warfare), sputtered: "Thousands of people in the U.S. are not shot every day. This is an exception." Stadnik complained he had fought through World War II without a scratch-only to be struck down in a supposedly friendly land...
Taxes. There was general approval of the 20% income tax cut first proposed by loud, bullet-headed Congressman Harold Knutson. It would be an across-the-board cut, which is contrary to New Deal theories of graduated ("soak the rich") taxation. But then there were few Republican recommendations which a New Dealer would cheer. Minnesota's Republican Congressman Walter H. Judd, no New Dealer, later denied the right of the conferees to commit the whole party to such action; his was a still, small voice. The Republican bosses claimed that the tax cut could be safely made...
Tucker had been quietly minding its own business. It had its hands full trying to get into production on a bullet-shaped car, the Tucker Torpedo in Chicago's surplus Dodge plant. Only six weeks ago, Tucker Corp. had signed a "firm" lease purchase agreement with the War Assets Administration for the plant...
Uruguay's President Gabriel Terra, recovering from an assassin's bullet, urged him not to ride through the streets of Montevideo, F.D.R. burst out laughing. "I can't see where I run any risks," he exclaimed, poking his fellow-president in the ribs. "You are the president they...