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...thrilling encounter at the Indoor Athletic Building Saturday night. Bob Morse, who had been out earlier in the season due to ineligibility, proved to be a new scoring ace, netting sixteen Crimson points on eight goals. Jim Grady also figured in the Harvard victory as the "spark plug" in the final onslaught...
Several dozen other provisions were aimed to plug up means of avoiding taxes by reorganizations, partnership losses, etc. Annuities would be taxed on a flat 3% basis; income tax deductions for estate and gift taxes would be disallowed; losses on sales of property to members of one's family would be ignored for tax purposes...
Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler used to be a Bowery pickpocket. From thieving, petty assaults and a stretch in Sing Sing he stepped up into the real estate business. For partners he had a pair of plug-uglies named Max Hassel and Max Greenberg. His real estate business served as a cloak for bigtime bootlegging in New Jersey. By 1931 the Wexler breweries at Paterson and Union City were returning profits at the rate of $2,277,000 per year. 'Legger Wexler bought $10 shirts, rode in limousines, kept an elaborate apartment with three master bedrooms, a library, a living...
...trainers for roadwork, or shambled into a backyard garage through a door topped by Juvenal's maxim. MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO. The garage was his training quarters, fitted as a gymnasium with an 18-ft. ring. There he skipped rope, shadowboxed, sparred with his U. S. plug-uglies...
...sharp eye of President Roosevelt last week focused upon women's high button shoes. Along with rubbers, corsets, kimonos, camisoles, stockings, dresses, cotton drawers, aprons, bloomers, lingerie, hairpins, princess slips and plug tobacco, he found button shoes listed as an item used by the Department of Labor in calculating its periodic Cost-of-Living index. The President needed no style expert to inform him that such footwear was now an anachronism even in the back-country districts. Suspecting that Madam Secretary Perkins' statisticians were behind the times on other articles in daily use, he ordered a complete revision...