Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...reach of the average man's pocket-book-many exhibitors got fancy ideas about value. In Manhattan's impoverished Harlem, at the headquarters of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, asking prices ranged from $50 to $2,000. Painter F. G. Schoen of Jacksonville, Fla. pinned a tag for $10,000 on his picture of a Madonna and child. In Rochester another $10,000 Madonna was submitted by an Italian immigrant woman named Caroline Vara. Painter Vara's Madonna, which swooned biliously with unintentional surrealism over a macrocephalic child, was painted after a $175 correspondence course...
...took over the headlines. The radio returned to straightforward entertainment. Here & there a deadlocked election still awaited the final count. There were the customary post-election cries of fraud, demands for recounts, for changes in the rules. But for most people the campaign was over and done with. Some tag ends...
...Brainerd, Minn., Judge Rich-Ebert got a parking tag, was haled into his own court. His judgment: "You're fined. Don't let it happen again...
...same prophecy has been made weekly for six weeks. For the Excess Profits Tax, though nobody likes its present shape, is a defense "must." Franklin Roosevelt has declared that U. S. rearmament must make no new "war millionaires." He therefore attached an excess-profits tax, like a price tag, to two other pieces of defense legislation that businessmen, the Defense Advisory Commission, the Treasury, the Army & Navy all wanted: 1) repeal of the Vinson-Trammell Act's profit limitation on plane and warship orders; 2) permission for defense manufacturers to amortize new plants (for tax purposes) in the short...
...suspects and most of the guns were identified as contraband, smuggled from Brazil after President Getulio Vargas put down an Integralistas (fascist) revolt there in 1938. Complete storm-troop kits were discovered, each containing two revolvers, a supply of hand grenades, a Nazi dagger, a steel helmet, an identification tag and iron rations...