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...President stood bareheaded . . . to watch a parade of 12,000 persons, including a fleet of small tanks" [TIME, April...
...just raised the basic British income tax rate to 27½%-but this was more astonishing to less heavily taxed foreigners than to Britons, for they have been paying 25% anyhow. Excited about 27½%, the New York Post put through a transatlantic telephone call, asked Fleet Street reporters to coax in a few Lodoners at random off the street to be questioned by New York. A van driver (truck driver), George Merrick, said: I think it is a very fair tax for the working...
...same short period the Baltic Fleet, backbone of the Soviet Navy, has had three different commanders: Sivkov, Issakov, and now Levchenko. Eight grand figures of the Soviet armed forces signed their names as judges to the condemnation of Marshal Tukachevsky, and of these eight at least four had by last week been purged. A fifth, Goriachev, figures in Moscow as in "doubtful standing...
...than 20,000 prosperous Japanese, who control the Philippine hemp industry, own 63,800 acres under legal leases, even more illegally. At week's end, three Philippine Army planes flew from Manila, scouted the Davao area. Most correspondents concluded from official silence that nobody could find a war fleet, that the jittery customs officer had seen either some harmless tankers or fishing boats, or an equally harmless yellow mirage...
...Harvard airmen will fly easily maneuverable two-seated Fleet biplanes, medium weight training ships. They have a slower landing speed than heavier and more advanced planes and are extremely versatile. Since there will be no speed event, as all events involving hazard were ruled out at the National Intercollegiate Flying Club Conference in Washington this April, they are splendidly adapted for this meet...