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Following up Nominee Landon's lead, the Republican National Committee last week scattered over the U. S. a sheaf of Press releases on taxation, a brochure entitled Soak the Rich Taxes Really Soak the Poor. Purpose of both was to depict the tax load supposedly borne by the Little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxes & Truth | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Smooth wet spindles combed into the plants, caught the white tufts from open bolls. From the spindles the cotton was mechanically stripped and blown into a collecting bag. Hour after hot hour the spindle-belts droned on like a swarm of bees. Bag after bellying bag poured out its load in a white cascade. Spectators crowded around to finger and scrutinize mechanically picked cotton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Picker Problems | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...rest of the line has a wealth of material to choose from. Alex Kevorkian, standout Freshman tackle two years ago, has returned from the probationary wars, and appears ready to offer a load of opposition to anyone who wants a scrap. Graham Spring, who played tackle last year is also coming back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BETTER FOOTBALL TEAM EXPECTED THIS SEASON | 9/1/1936 | See Source »

Express facilities in a college town are taxed with two "peak load" periods, the incoming in September, and the exodus in June. But the reserve power of a national organization is such that the smooth functioning of the home-to-room service is unimpaired in efficiency. The express agency does the job in one motion, saving the trouble of moving by separate stages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Railway Express Agency Taxed to Utmost as Students Start to Flock Towards Cambridge | 9/1/1936 | See Source »

...crowd, which had already torn down an Olympic flag, surged on to listen to more speeches in the Plaza San Martin. Later it proceeded to the German Consulate to throw stones at the windows until police arrived in trucks. At Callao, Lima seaport, workmen on the docks refused to load two German vessels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympic Games (Concl'd) | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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