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This time the Republicans obligingly documented their case with a list of 58 taxes which, they claimed, added 2? to the price of bread. An amazing political document, the list contained not 58 different kinds of taxes, but only 16 types, which the Republicans had multiplied by applying them individually at each step in the process of making and selling a loaf of bread. Thus a Federal income tax paid by farmer, grain elevator, flour mill, railroad, flour trucker, baking company and retail distributor counted as seven taxes. Even after multiplication, it was shown that only...
...last July excused his absence from a hearing to the judge on the ground that it had been necessary for him to fly to California to talk with Mr. Hearst. As proof of his journey, he offered a letter Mr. Hearst had written him confirming their conversation. From this document Secretary Ickes quoted Publisher Hearst as follows: "The average politician around him [Landon] is continually urging him to get out and talk. Talk is the method of the average politician, but ... this is a campaign in which speechmaking might do more harm than good. At present the Democrats have nothing...
...diploma as a letter of recommendation, which each student must apply for and purchase personally. The same practice provails today. Unlike most other colleges, also, Harvard has never awarded diplomas to individual students at Commencement, but has requried graduates to make their own arrangements to pick up the document, or have it sent to them, after the exercises...
...from the U. S. Navy in 1927, was arrested by the Department of Justice, accused of betraying Navy secrets to Japan (TIME, July 27). The District of Columbia's Grand Jury shortly indicted this jittery alcoholic on the charge that he sold to the Japanese a confidential Naval document entitled The Service of Information and Security. Last week the Grand Jury indicted Farnsworth on the more serious charge of conspiracy. Named were two of Farnsworth's clients: Commander Yosiyuki Itimiya, assistant Naval attaché at the Japanese Embassy from October 1932 to December 1934, and Lieut. Commander Arika...
...great demonstration in which shirt-sleeved men paraded in feathered Indian headdress, girls blew kisses at the platform. With similar unanimity, the Convention adopted its political resolutions, couched in a churchly laudamus style : "We reaffirm our faith in American institutions, particularly our faith in the Constitution. . . . We praise that document. . . . We praise. . . . We further praise. . . Lastly we praise the Constitution in its entirety and inclusive of its amendments. . . . Finally, lest specification detract from the fullness of our sanction, we publish our unreserved and unqualified endorsements of all public acts, radio addresses and statements of our leader, pledging our resources...