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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...taxes, his share of the Capone "mob's" profits for the years 1925-27. With complete candor he explained that the money had been come by through all sorts of racketeering. He was pained and surprised that the Government taxed such incomes. Said he: "I talked with a half a dozen attorneys and they didn't know any more than I did. In 1926 the Circuit Court of Appeals held that income from illicit sources could not be taxed. The next year the Supreme Court ruled differently. I have never committed a crime of moral turpitude. I have...
...acceptable to the Guatemalan Army and a considerable section of the populace. Day after his recognition by the U. S., a General Manuel Orellana rushed with troops out of Fort Matamoras where he was commandant, booted out Acting President Palma, took the office himself. A half-hour's gun play left 57 persons killed or wounded. During the ruction somebody killed Gen eral Mauro de Leon, who as No. 1 Designate, should have succeeded ailing President Chacon but for the fact that he had recently accepted a cabinet post as Minister of War, was therefore ineligible under the Guatemalan...
...smoking-room story and make it work for him. Further testimony is the fact that Fawcett magazines (all monthly) now number twelve. Publisher Fawcett returned from the War to Minneapolis (where he had long been police reporter on the Journal) broke and jobless. He borrowed a typewriter and, half for amusement, half with a vague hope of profit, began dashing off "hot" jokes and verses for his Army friends. Popularity was immediate. "Captain Billy" had to mimeograph his "stuff" to meet the demand, giving the sheet the title which persists: Captain Billy's Whiz Bang: "Explosion of Pedigreed Bull...
...Knoxville and Memphis papers, taken individually, are supposed to be money makers. But the financing was thinly spread and the publishing properties were closely involved with a variety of other Lea-Caldwell activities, notably with Caldwell & Co., investment house, and its subsidiary Bank of Tennessee, which held one-half the stock of Southern Publishers. When, last October the Caldwell businesses began to totter (TIME, Nov. 17, 24) $1,266,310 was drawn from the Commercial Appeal and passed to the Caldwell houses. Few days later the banks crashed and the papers' money was tied up. Aggravating the situation...
...five titles he will publish two: Motion Picture Herald (weekly) and Motion Picture Daily. Also he will establish a Hollywood daily, thus relegating Film Daily to the status of a local New York paper. The merged properties were valued at $2,000,000, the Herald-World accounting for one-half...