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...justification to increased Government revenue this year which has followed the reduction of maximum surtaxes from 65% to 50% and the abolition of the excess profits tax. The reason for this, he believes, is less tax evasion either by falsification of returns or by investment in tax-exempt securities, non-productive forms of investment. He is inclined to think that the maximum surtax should be not more than...
...Inasmuch as Nevada is among the chief silver-producing states of the Union, he, like his Democratic colleague Senator Key Pittman, is highly in favor of aiding the silver industry. Bui Senator Oddie is a Republican and not so progressive or " radical" as Mr. Pittman. He will open a non-ferrous metal conference at Reno on Sept...
...Klan has bought Valparaiso University at Valparaiso, Ind. Valparaiso University will become a national university. It will be run as a non-sectarian institution open to all regardless of race or color. But the Klan will control it, its board of trustees being made up of Knights selected from the various Realms of the United States...
...colleague, Dr. Clark L. Hull, determined to eliminate these subjective elements, and devised a "control" pipe, containing an electric heating coil. The subjects were given this while blindfolded and were surprised to learn later that they had not been smoking tobacco, but merely drawing in heated air. Seven non-smokers and nine smokers (university students) were tested for three hours on 18 consecutive days, on some of which they smoked actual tobacco before the tests, and on others only the "control." The tests included pulse beat, motor control (absence of tremors), tapping of a telegraph key, muscular fatigue, cancellation...
Piloted by Edward Stinson, a pioneer aviator, with Charles Dickinson and Arthur Gray of the Aero Club of Illinois as passengers, a Junker metal monoplane made an all-night non-stop fight from Chicago to Mitchel Field, L. I. Flying steadily at 100 miles an hour, by moonlight to Cleveland, in total darkness thereafter, the plane completed the journey in eight and a half hours without the shadow of a mishap. This is a forerunner of the aerial sleeper. The 20th Century Limited serves the business man at present better than an airplane flying only by day, but to make...