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...Frozen Smile. So the income tax was crushed to earth again. It is possible to fix the day, the hour, the minute, almost the very second when it began to rise again, a rise that was to lead without serious check to the Great Disgorging of mid-March 1952. President Theodore Roosevelt, who had been annoyed for some time at what he called "the dull, purblind folly of the very rich men," made a speech on April 14, 1906, at the cornerstone laying of the new House Office Building. Congressman Champ Clark, long the Democratic House leader, gave this account...
...place (up from fourth) and forced Czechoslovakia into a third-place play-off-which it lost to Sweden. The Russians, looking after Little Brother Czechoslovakia, figured the tie was no mere accident. In effect, they were crying that ugly three-letter word all too familiar to Western sport fans: "Fix...
...Department, which had warned businessmen to abide by the Supreme Court anti-Fair Trade ruling, filed an antitrust suit against Chicago's Sunbeam Corp. (Mixmasters, Shavemasters), which had tried to shut off all supplies to price-cutters. The charge: Sunbeam and its 1,200 distributors had "conspired" to fix and control their prices, specifically in the District of Columbia, Vermont, Texas and Missouri, none of which has Fair Trade laws. In the absence of such laws, charged the trustbusters, Sunbeam's minimum-price contracts violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. Sunbeam, claiming that price-cutting, far from being good...
...this, Detroit Edison can thank not only Thomas Edison, but the canniness of the late, Glasgow-born Alex Dow. As Detroit Edison's president for 28 years, Dow was shrewd enough to enlarge the company's policy of giving away free bulbs, set up repair crews to fix electric cords and to repair appliances, all without charge...
...kronk," was the shy answer. "Du kenst mir fixen? [I'm sick. You can fix...