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With the 72nd Congress imminent, the nation's $600,000,000 deficit growing larger and tax collections smaller, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills and his corps are bestirring themselves to find new means of bringing more and badly-needed cash into the national till. Last week the White House let it be known that "a scheme for selective sales taxes is being considered officially." What this means is that President Hoover may propose to Congress a luxury tax. It also indicates that Treasury and President have decided that the extra billion dollars cannot be squeezed...
...Senator Borah barged through without giving anyone a chance to take his picture. Senator Watson of Indiana, always hearty with newsmen, arrived 20 min. early "to persuade the President to change his mind and give out an official statement at the conclusion of this conference." Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills came early to do the same...
...given a light sentence. In court Capone's attorney had asserted that the agreement was approved by Attorney General Mitchell and "an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury." In Washington the Department of Justice had admitted approving this deal, insisted the procedure was customary. Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills had denied knowing anything about it. Judge Wilkerson had upset the plans by declaring: "The court will listen to recommendations, but it is utterly impossible to bargain with a Federal court." Then he had allowed frightened Capone to change his plea to not guilty, had sought?and failed...
...Author. Robin Edgerton Spencer, 34, discovered Henry James at 27, still thinks The Ambassadors "the loveliest novel" he knows. Born in Ogden, Utah, son of a train despatcher, he left school at 10 to work in a department store, clerked in various offices for 18 years. Then he started school again, on winter evenings at Washington's George Washington University. He spent his summer nights for four years writing The Lady Who Came to Stay. When he sent the unsolicited MS to Publisher Knopf he enclosed a self-addressed return wrapper. The wrapper was not used. Author Spencer now lives...
Given a script written by Donald Ogden Stewart, and a cast composed of prominent Paramountites, and entertainment is in the nature of a foregone conclusion. "Rebound" has the cheery banter, the rapid repartee, the nonsensical chit-chat that is peculiar to Mr. Stewart's humor. And yet the picture has a high specific gravity, gathering body as it goes, until a climax of seriousness and deep dramatic interest is attained. "Rebound" is the story of a woman who marries the man of her love after he has been jilted by another. Follows a period of short-lived happiness, until...