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...Sergeant Bruno Mussolini, 17, trim Air Second Lieutenant Vittorio Mussolini, 18, and baby-faced Air Captain Count Nobile Galeazzo Ciano, husband of the Premier's daughter and favorite child Edda. With these kin of the Dictator doing their bit, Cabinet members were informed that they are not exempt from answering when their military classes are called, will "fight as privates" unless previous war experience entitles them to higher rank...
...necessary to place at their disposal the largest athletic establishment in the world covering more than 60 acres and employing about 50 persons beside the coaching staffs. Although it is necessary for the rest of the student body to pay for the use of the equipment, the Freshmen are exempt from a fee because they are required to spend at least three one hour periods each week in some form of physical exercise. The whole system is under the administration of the Harvard Athletic Association headed by William J. Bingham...
...Exempt from all except safety and labor regulations, thanks to potent Washington lobbies, are trucks used exclusively for carrying newspapers, fish, livestock and farm produce, all trucks owned by farmers' co-operative associations, private manufacturers and merchants. Totally exempt are school buses, hotel buses, trolley buses, taxicabs and buses & trucks engaged only in intrastate commerce. The Federal law will directly affect about 50,000 trucks, 100,000 buses. However, since every State but Delaware has some measure of motor carrier regulation, the new law will in effect do little more than stabilize an industry in which the big units...
...more per year. These, he declared with a broad grin and an obvious dig at William Randolph Hearst, whose newspapers had taken to calling the tax bill a "soak the thrifty" measure, were 58 of "the thriftiest people in the U. S." By buying tax-exempt Federal, State and Municipal securities they had managed to avoid paying any taxes whatever on 37% of their income...
Since Frenchmen know that thrifty President Franklin Delano Roosevelt has a fat little fortune, they would approve if in marrying off an only daughter he dowered her with 20% of it in tax-exempt bonds. Such was the ratio observed last week by shrewd, earthy, peasant-born Premier Pierre Laval when, like equally plebeian Premier Benito Mussolini, he prepared to marry off his José to a count...