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Nevertheless the sales tax split the Democratic House ranks wide open. Members repudiated the measure as a party bill, flayed it on a breach of party tradition. They vehemently argued that it was a tax upon the necessities of life, and hence upon the poor man, without regard to ability to pay. Mockingly they declared that the only thing exempt would be admission to a bread line. Some hotheads even denied the necessity of balancing the Budget by taxation at all. To each & every critic of the sales tax, secretly afraid of losing his political skin in the next election...
...Nationalists are probably going to enroll under the aegis of the Hitlerites, though even they are liable to split. The Nationalists have the common discase of the prolorariat in times of distreas, discontent. This discontent is general they are against everything quite impartially, so it is quite logical that they should disapprove of the largest and most prominent thing that catches their eye, the party in power, Fay said...
...Geninses are cases of a complete split between the intellectual and emotional sides of human nature. With mind divorced from the emotions greater concentration is possible, but occasionally the emotions that have been sublimated will unconsciously demand release. This accounts for the periodic violent debaucheries that geniuses frequently indulge...
...France does not want discussed). The Russian Government was on the qui vive (see p. 20). Thus Japan was not under pressure from any "united front'' presented by the Great Powers last week. Japanese correspondents cabled to Tokyo from Washington that President Hoover and Secretary Stimson had "split" on the Sino-Japanese issue, the President wanting to do nothing and the Secretary of State wanting to write a stern note to Japan. Tokyo, hearing this, accepted the Stimson-to-Borah letter as "proof" that Mr. Hoover had not let Mr. Stimson write to Japan...
...same price. The Plan receives dividends on this Squibb store, is also given a 10% rebate on its members' purchases and 10% payments on their increase in sales from year to year. Out of this income it pays 6% to its members on their investment. The balance is split between E. R. Squibb & Sons and the members, the amount paid to each of the latter being based upon his purchases. Last week President Palmer reported that 1931 net earnings to each Plan member averaged 23.8% of paid-in capital, that for the past two years and three months...