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Taxes. Second important measure that the Administration is. bent on having is the bill to plug income tax law leaks. A good talking point for next autumn's campaign, it will add $258,000,000 to the government's revenue. Already through the House, the tax bill now reposes in the Senate Finance Committee...
...pictures, "In This Corner. . .", a glimpse of a negro welterweight hunched on his stool under the shadow of his handlers while the referee howls out the announcements, and "The Neighborhood Champ," a picture of an ugly plug climbing into the ring while his uglier friends cheer, deserve especial attention. Mr. Riggs has succeeded in catching excellently the impact of the environment on the different personalities, the tenseness of the fighters, the nonchalance of the handlers, and the exhibitionism of the referee...
...Marks started publishing songs in Manhattan. Songs became hits then in the city's lowest dives. Publishers made the rounds themselves, bought drinks for the performers, distributed chorus sheets among the customers. Edward B. Marks is still publishing songs at 62, as acute to the value of a plug by Rudy Vallée as he was to one by Lottie Gilson, the curvey "Little Magnet,'' who in the 1890s drew tears each night at Tony Pastor's on 14th Street. Fortnight ago Edward B. Marks published a song history of the last 40 years...
...Beauty Products" is another business enterprise in which girls sing, dance and tub. The opulent proprietress (Thelma Todd) and a pretty salesgirl (Dorothy Lee) meet two preposterous persons (Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey) who sell flavored lipstick. They dance a lively ballet in a stranger's office, plug a pleasant song: "Keep On Doin' What You're Doin.' " Admirers of the agonized smile of small Wheeler and the brisk dignity of cigar-chewing Woolsey will relish the automobile race which they win after a cyclone whirls them up into the snow-covered Rockies...
...National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, of which they are members. Laid before the committee was a complaint from the Navy and War Departments that secret aircraft developments submitted to the N.A.C.A. for research had leaked into the hands of foreign powers. Last week the committee undertook a "campaign" to plug the leak, began by refusing even to reveal what had already leaked...