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...House of Representatives has passed a bill taxing the gate receipts of all exhibitions of sport ten percent. College football, the only amateur sport rich in revenue, is expected to yield about two and a half million dollars. Nothing could demonstrate better how subtly the burden of taxes may shift, defeating the intentions of the legislators and the theory underlying...
...addition to plain opinions openly expressed, Governor Ritchie has shone in local affairs; since 1920, for example, the tax rate of Maryland has been decreased thirty percent. The State has today an authoritative credit of one hundred percent, and in this Maryland is unique among the 48 states. Locally, therefore, Ritchie is strongly cheered; his economies and shrewd conduct of the business of the State have increased his hold on the citizens of Maryland...
...Over 50 percent of the students are at present, or have been engaged in work of some kind during their term at the school...
...editorial in yesterday's Transcript offers new proof of the success of Military Science in the realms of higher education. The answers to a questionnaire sent by the Research Organization on Military Training to students provide the evidence. Ninety-five percent of the answers support the statement that military instruction is of importance to a liberal education. These figures were cited to prove the merits of military science as an adjunct to education...
...people didn't put money in them. Might it be whispered that in some cases the money was taken out because the banks were falling? Few people will be impressed by the declaration that "the limitation of American business to a domestic basis, would bring back at least ninety percent of the former prosperity of this nation." It amounts to the assertion that the simultaneous to the assertion that the simultaneous economic troubles of the various nations were mere coincidences, and that they have no real relationship to one another. Which is what the Japanese government said about the occupations...