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...penalties from some 100 U. S. corporations (TIME, Oct. 29). The Treasury Department found itself in a morass of legal tangles arising from the difficulty of deciding what needs are ''reasonable." It was clear from last week's outpouring of extra dividends that many a corporation had decided to split swollen surpluses with its stockholders before Congress meets in January to tighten the revenue law's definitions...
...Fogg Art Museum yesterday became the center of a debate which threatened to split the world of art into three definite schools of thought...
...Union Society, refused to agree to this, stating that it was a matter of principle for his team to support the affirmative. A question on censorship of news was suggested, but Harvard and Oxford coincided in choosing the negative side of this topic. When Oxford refused to undertake a split team debate. Harvard was forced to accept the negative side of the Anglo-American question...
Despite air-tight censorship Japan's Cabinet was known to have split on the issue of economy v. militarism, with Finance Minister Fujii battling to the last ditch for a balanced budget. The last ditch in Japan is the point at which the Army and Navy, responsible solely to the Divine Emperor, threaten to withdraw their ministers, without which no Japanese Cabinet can exist. In the bitter dawn. War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi and Navy Minister Admiral Mineo Osumi hurled this final threat and Finance Minister Fujii crumpled, accepting their demands which means saddling Japan with...
Still 140 mi. from his goal, Scott with Wilson, Bowers, Gates and Evans split off from the others for the final dash. They reached the Pole on Jan. 16, were staggered to find a black flag left by Amundsen. "Great God!" Scott wrote. "This is an awful place, and terrible enough for us to have labored to it without the reward of priority...