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...windfalls are so dense along the river's banks that fishing is impossible except from a boat. A onetime employe of the late Mr. Pierce says the Brule trout used to be so thick and tame (from hand-feeding) that you could take them with only a landing-net. They were so thick that there was not enough natural feed for them. Stinting their artificial diet made them so ravenous that they would strike at anything you dropped overboard-a cigarette butt, a finger. Mr. Pierce was a sportsman and permitted only flyfishing, with barbless hooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Brule | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...Total reductions $225,295,000 INCREASES Withholding at source taxes due from nonresident stockholders $ 2,000,000 A new 25% tax on prize fight tickets of $5 or more 750,000 A new duty on foreign-built yachts 50,000 Total increases $2,800,000 Net tax reduction $222,495,000 Until near the close of the House-Senate conferences, it appeared that Senators Norris, Couzens, et al. might revive in come tax publicity by a provision making tax returns public documents, though not accessible in every collector's office. But the Senate voted for privacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tax Cut | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...April 30, $10,299,566 business. The net profits, slim, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stout Women | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Whitbeck, University net leader this season, follows in the footsteps of his brother, J. F. W. Whitbeck '27 who also held the captaincy during his last two years in college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B. H. WHITBECK '29 REELECTED NET CAPTAIN FOR NEXT YEAR | 6/2/1928 | See Source »

Noble, the winner, is among the high ranking juniors of the State. Playing his first year in the junior ranks in 1927, he went to Canada and won the Dominion junior net crown. His team at Newton High School has been undefeated this season. He reached the semi-finals at the recent Yale interscholastics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANDOVER ACADEMY WINS SCHOLASTIC NET CROWN | 6/1/1928 | See Source »

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