Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Common Income. Arizona, Louisiana, Texas and Washington have laws which give husband & wife an equal share in their community income. Many a husband & wife have therefore divided their income, rendered separate Federal income tax returns on the halves, thus gaining great tax reductions. Last year Congress by special act extended the Statute of Limitations so that the Treasury Department could sue these citizens for the tax on the full amount of their combined income in 1927 and 1928. The Supreme Court last week decided for the citizens, against the Treasury Department. Away from the Government, back to taxpayers in Arizona...
...Nation. The Attorney General spoke in broad terms. On both seaboards and along the Mexican border, he said, customs and narcotic squads have been increased, reorganized. In all racket-ridden cities investigators are plodding away at gangsters' bank-accounts and records. A special agent is in Chicago coordinating the work of Prohibition, Narcotics and Industrial Alcohol Bureaus, the Immigration, Coast Guard and Customs Services. All this might have seemed nebulous without the Guzick conviction to give it point. And the same day Guzick was indicted, mounted Customs men had slain two smuggling gangsters, wounded another, in Texas...
...Edward Wigglesworth, director of the Boston Society of Natural History, last week dusted off his whale bones and stuffed birds, celebrated the 100th anniversary of the museum's founding. Because it was a special occasion, Professor Julian Sorell Huxley, Honorary Lecturer at King's College, London, was invited to make a speech to the curators, trustees, members. Professor Huxley, whose favorite recreation is "bird-watching," had much to say which a naturalist would find interesting. A distinguished scientist in his own right, he is the grandson of the late famed Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95), popularizer of Charles...
...existing organizations where intelli gently possible) for child health, education and welfare. They should have: 1) trained full-time public health officials with public health nurses, sanitary inspectors and laboratory workers; 2) available hospital beds; 3) full-time public welfare services for the relief and aid of children in special need from poverty or misfortune, for the protection of children from abuse, neglect, exploitation, moral hazard; 4) voluntary organization of children for instruction, health, recreation...
...whisper them into radio telephones because they know that anyone with a radio set can eavesdrop. But last week in Manhattan, Sergius Paul Grace, vice president of Bell Telephone Laboratories, demonstrated how radio conversations may be absolutely private. Mr. Grace played a phonograph record into a special type of microphone. The audience heard an ordinary speech. Then he took away the microphone, played the record alone. Listeners heard a gibberish of strange grunts and squeaks...