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...Californians will owe their State the first tax bills under their new income tax law passed last June. As passed its schedule ranged from 1% to 15% which meant that any citizen with an income of $1,000,000 a year would have to pay the State $140,575. The law also presumed that six months residence within the State was tantamount to citizenship. By last week it was time for anyone who contemplated howling about this levy to get it off his chest. One who did so was Publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose California properties include...
...address the Ohio Chamber of Commerce next month, it will not be to throw his battered hat in the ring, but to speak "only about Kansas." Speaking only about Kansas last week he said: "I am extremely flattered by the Presidential talk, but these are difficult times and I owe the people of Kansas a duty to stick by my guns in the State." What Is Herbert Hoover? In the Republican equation for 1936, Frank Knox is a potent known quantity. Alf Landon is a potential quantity. Herbert Hoover is Quantity X. Herbert Hoover may utterly lack human plasticity...
...there are critics who are honest and nonpartisan and who are willing to discuss and to learn. I believe we owe, therefore, a positive duty to clarify our purposes, to describe our methods and to reiterate our ideals...
...other things to me. Nothing seemed to do much good, though. One day my manservant brought me a sinister-looking bottle-it looked like a wine bottle-and on it was written 'Kleano'. I was ready to try anything. I took it and I owe my return to that medicine. . . . It changed my whole life. . . . I gave them a testimonial for it just before I left London...
Japanese troops are often primed for battle by stirring their souls with the fervent poem which concludes ". . . immeasurable as the depths of the sea is the debt we owe our Emperor. The time has come to pay our debts...