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Governor Henry Horner put the sales tax law through the General Assembly last winter as an emergency means of raising some $40,000,000 in revenue. Its proceeds were to be spent either on jobless relief or school expenses. *Only two kinds of retailers were exempt from the tax: farmers selling their own products and filling stations where gasoline is already taxed...
Politician, Moe Rosenberg has been a power in the now victorious Democracy of Chicago. He traveled with Illinois' new Democratic Governor, Henry Horner, to the inaugural at Washington, but he did not go there...
...Maple Leafs in the final play-offs for the Stanley Cup. Last week he proved his achievement was no fluke. In the third game against New York he slapped two shots past the Rangers' noisy young goalie, Andy Aitkenhead. The Rangers tied the score but red-haired Reginald Horner of the Leafs, playing with a plaster-cast on his broken right hand, finished what Doraty had started, won the game for Toronto 3 to 2 with a goal in the last period...
...normal U. S. high-school pupils understand about R. F. C. loans, but that was just what the Chicago teachers were most interested in. There were conferences with Governor Henry Horner, with Acting Mayor Corr and with the Citizens' Committee on Public Expenditures. Teachers marched upon the First National Bank, seeking audience with Melvin A. Traylor. From Washington Illinois' Senator James Hamilton Lewis sent word that President Roosevelt was sympathetic, would see a delegation of teachers soon. Senator Lewis announced he had a new plan for getting Federal...
...Montreal Maroons. Lean, morose goalie for the Maple Leafs is Lome Chabot, who has worn the same pair of lucky trousers in every hockey game for five years. The Maple Leafs' chief handicaps were injuries to three of their ablest men-Right-wing Bailey (dislocated shoulder), Defenseman Horner (broken hand), Center Primeau (blood poisoning in his left foot...