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...boom stage is not here yet but we are so near it that we have no time to lose in getting ready to meet it." Indeed, retailers are expecting to meet the boom this month in Christmas trade which will be the heaviest in dollars since 1929 and may exceed that year in volume of actual goods. In rural sections retail trade this autumn has already topped 1929. City counters have been jammed ever since the holiday shopping started after Thanksgiving, with a notable improvement in demand for quality and luxury lines. In Manhattan stores furs have led all departments...
...religious, humane, charitable, or educational purposes which shall use said property exclusively for such purposes 'within the state' shall be exempt from the inheritance taxes." This means that Harvard would not come under the usual tax-exempt category. Another clause, however, stipulates that taxes on bequests should not exceed 15% of the amount given to any one beneficiary, leaving approximately $2,000,000 which will eventually be realized by the University. Federal taxation will not effect Mrs. Nieman's grant because of its educational use, and also because Federal inheritance taxes cannot be twice collected on the same money within...
...John Hamilton, unlike John Raskob, has not great personal wealth with which to play sugar-daddy to his Party. Last week John Hamilton talked blithely of spending two or three weeks raising money to pay the huge Republican deficit whose full size is still undetermined but which will probably exceed $1,000,000. It took Financier Raskob and his party more than four years to pay off the Democratic deficit...
Articles may deal with any aspect of Harvard life which appeals to the individual, and must not exceed five thousand words. The deadline is December...
...dinner coming as it does on the eve of the Harvard-Navy football game when many former Harvard athletes will be in Boston for the game promises to exceed in number the dinner tendered by the Varsity Club a year ago last spring when the former H men welcomed Dick Harlow to Cambridge. The response from the old athletes has been so heavy that Mr. Floyd is presently concerned with his seating arrangements...