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...acting on this proposal the committee by a partisan vote turned its thumbs down on the first. The second was granted but with smaller reductions than the Democrats had asked. The capital stock tax (of $1 on $1,000) was stricken out, but by way of substitute the majority increased the flat tax on corporate earnings from 12era, leaving the tax on other entertainments at 10% on tickets costing more than 50 Taxes on foreign-built yachts were made twice as high as those imposed by the House (in order to encourage native yacht builders...
Every year recently, there has been discussion over authorizing the Student Friendship Fund, a permanent nationwide institution, to carry on operations for a drive among Harvard students. The proceeds collected from American colleges are sent to Europe to help maintain poor students and poverty-stricken professors there. So far the Council has authorized collections for this fund at the University, and a favorable decision this year is expected...
...purposes of historical study are often more faithfully served by a vivid incident than by pages of abstractions: this little memoir illumines America's maritime era. The poverty-stricken mother of Elijah Cobb, a sailor's widow, mothering six, sent him out into the world. At 14 he sailed for Surinam as cook and cabin-boy; he was in command of a brig at 23. The captain of those days was navigator, merchant, banker and diplomatist as occasion required; witness his first voyage to Europe as shipmaster. The year was 1793, when neutrals had few rights. His brig...
...Mulhouse, Alsace-Lorraine, one De Mouche, farmer, put on his hunting cap, took his long gun in hand, and went out to visit his rabbit snares. Sure enough, in the first snare cowered a furry creature, pressing its soft white belly against the ground, upturning stricken, opalescent eyes. Farmer De Mouche chuckled. He laid his long shotgun upon the ground and bent to secure his game. But suddenly there was a scuffle behind him; another rabbit leaped out of the bush, sprang upon the shotgun's trigger. "BANG!" Farmer De Mouche received both barrels in his back. Bloody, mangled...
Died. Thomas Burke, 77, eminent Seattle lawyer, onetime Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory (later the state of Washington); at Manhattan, in the arms of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. He had been stricken with apoplexy while pleading for justice for Japan before his fellow-trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...