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There are two ways to save the tiles, and therefore the Lampoon. Having immense popular appeal, the editors could make a plea for donations to buy another identical set of tiles. Such a plan would have every chance of success: it would make people believe the Lampoon is poverty stricken. But if a great many persons in the University do not care about the Lampoon's financial status, there is another, more sure fire plan, entailing only the cost of a few cheap umbrellas. Lampoon men could hold meetings not in the Great Hall, but above it, on the distinctive...
...filed for the previous year (TIME, Aug. 31). Like most income-tax enforcement techniques, this was a psychological weapon. Andrews was not nearly so interested in the citizens actually questioned by the canvassers as he was in the thousands of others who would hear about the canvass and be stricken with honesty. When the Los Angeles newspapers said that a canvass had begun, 1,200 people showed up at the Internal Revenue office before it opened next morning; some asked for forms as far back...
...improve both his own position and that of the stricken real-estate owner, Crosby decided to seek better results from the state's personal-property tax. If Nebraskans had winked at the real-estate tax, they had guffawed at the personal-property tax. Few reported all personal property for assessment, as required by the law. In Omaha, a violinist in the symphony orchestra reported no violin, a furrier no furs, a camera dealer no camera, a jeweler no jewelry, the manager of a television station no TV set. Not much could be done about it, because personal-property...
...farmers in the old Kansas-Nebraska-Oklahoma-Colorado dust bowl were worrying about a lack of wheat, not a surplus. In the last fortnight, storms have again covered farms in the drought-stricken bowl with blankets of dust. Colorado's Republican Governor Dan Thornton pointed out that there would be no dust bowl if good grazing lands, anchored by tough, tangled grass roots, had not been plowed up to plant wheat under the incentive of Government-supported high prices. Said he: "High prices guaranteed for wheat have ... led to plowing up . . . land which never should have been cultivated...
...special classes of 20 and with sym pathetic teachers, they began to pick up their three Rs rapidly. One ten-year-old who had been stricken with rheumatic fever and missed a year of school gained a year's credit in reading, picked up eight months in all his other studies; another child, whose insecure home life had made him hate school, gained 1½ years in all his work, now argues to go to school even when he is sick. By Christmas vacation, teachers could report that the 100 students had doubled their proficiency in reading, spelling, arithmetic...