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...brief, if the tax reduction bill is to pass, the support of conservative Democrats, about nine Senators and 23 Representatives must be won. Or the bill must be so modified as to suit the La Follette group. The latter course means that high surtaxes would have to remain on large incomes, and that perhaps an excess profits tax might be imposed...
...effects in London, a rare copy of his The American Commonwealth was knocked down for $16. This volume contained the unexpurgated chapter, withdrawn from later volumes, dealing with Tammany Hall and Tweed Ring corruption in Manhattan politics. This chapter cost Lord Bryce $50,000 in a law suit after his book was first published...
Five years and $1,000,000 more or less brought at least a temporary termination of a notorious divorce suit. In one hour and five minutes a jury disposed of several thousand dollars' worth of argument and many hours of legal talent. One Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes was acquitted of 16 charges lodged by one W. E. D. Stokes, her husband...
...Beers has devoted his life and resources to the movement, has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. In 1909 he founded the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, of which he has been Secretary ever since. He was instrumental in starting a correlative agency in Canada. Other countries followed suit. Four years ago, Mr. Beers took the first step toward world-wide cooperation in mental hygiene. In 1925 in Manhattan will be held the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene. The participation of the great European countries has been promised and Mr. Beers has secured the personal approval of King Albert...
...Philadelphia, Mrs. Catherine Rosier won a suit from two insurance companies for $35,568 on accident policies carried by her husband, Oscar Rosier, whom she shot and killed in his office in January, 1922. She also shot and killed Mr. Rosier's stenographer...