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About 2,000 U. S. citizens are currently studying medicine abroad. They will be exempt from the new regulations but not from the sharpened prejudice of State examiners against foreign-educated applicants for licenses...
...surprising that in a prolonged depression like the present there should be a revival of talk concerning the financial burden imposed upon the city of Cambridge by the presence of educational institutions with large amounts of tax-exempt property. The proposal that Harvard and M.I.T professors should contribute one-tenth of their salaries towards the cost of city government in lion of taxes upon the property of those institutions was perhaps suggested by the "voluntary" contributions already collected from Cambridge public school-teachers and other city employees. Such a proposal, however, in turn evokes other suggestions. One is that...
Holders of this supreme Soviet decoration are exempt from Soviet taxes (proverbially heavy). They receive an inalienable monthly stipend from the State, ride free on Soviet tramcars, busses, trains, steamers, airplanes. Russia's new State Prosecutor, plodding Comrade Andrei Vyshinsky, who has yet to make a really big mark, received last week the Order of the Red Banner, still has to pay railroad, steamship and airplane fare but not carfare...
...imposed an import tax (tariff) of 10? per cwt. on coal, except from countries against which the U. S. had a favorable trade balance on that commodity. As the U. S. exports more coal to Canada than Canada sends to the U. S., the Dominion was automatically exempt from this tax provision. Last summer importers of British and German coal asked the U. S. to suspend the tax on their shipments. Reason: Britain and Germany have treaties with the U. S. promising them the same commercial treatment in this country as the most favored nation-in this case, Canada...
...Vagabond reflects that not even greater men are exempt from the blight. On his own bookshelves reposes the embalmed corpse of the "Faery Queene," which later on of course he means to read. But not just yet. He will take it up someday, with the tragedies of Ben Jonson, and also "Paradise Regained." And Pope. In the eighteenth century the little man in black, with the twisted shoulder and the twisted smile, was the terror as well as the delight of London. A single translation made him rich; he was bribed to write and believed to be silent. Pope...