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...than I did. In 1926 the Circuit Court of Appeals held that income from illicit sources could not be taxed. The next year the Supreme Court ruled differently. I have never committed a crime of moral turpitude. I have never done anything that is condemned by society as morally wrong. I didn't pay income taxes because the laws were not clear. But if society demands a penalty from me I am glad to pay it." Had Gangster Nitti been detected bringing merchandise dutiable at $158,000 through the Customs, he would have been assessed $158,000 duty, plus...
...Long, lean, after his able service through the War as Governor of Bombay (Bombay was headquarters for the ill-fated British Mesopotamia expedition) he was appointed Governor of Madras. British papers announced that it was "a foregone conclusion" that he would be next Viceroy of India. Something went wrong, Lord Reading, a fellow-Liberal, got the job. In 1926 Lord Willingdon was made Governor General of Canada. Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas, his eldest son, served in the Coldstreams, was killed in the War. In 1924 Lord Willingdon's second son, the Hon. Inigo Brassey Freeman-Thomas married Maxine, daughter...
...recently accepted a cabinet post as Minister of War, was therefore ineligible under the Guatemalan Constitution. The U. S. State Department was in a tight place. After the revolution in Brazil (TIME, Nov. 3), and now for the second time in three months, it had picked the wrong horse. Worst of all, having recognized Acting President Palma, it was duty-bound not to recognize Acting President Orellana. In 1923 Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes endorsed a Central American agreement which mutually barred recognition of any Central American government which came into existence through a coup d'etat. Only...
...folding legs. When he was on the road with Louis the Fourteenth he had to stumble down a flight of stairs. One night one of the stairs was missing and he broke his legs. U. S. doctors said he could never fold again, but Vienna specialists proved them wrong. In London, Ambassador Dawes thought it would be fun to have Errol function anonymously as a waiter at an embassy dinner. Errol crashed silver and glass about, poured mineral water on a lady's arm, dropped forks under the table and crawled after them with a flashlight, asking guests...
...Navy overshifted a little, and Army Halfback Ray Stecker cut over to the short side with pretty interference and was free. As he passed the line oi scrimmage he fooled the Navy right halfback and the safety man by swerving.sharply to his left as they came in from the wrong side; then he skipped 56 yards down the south sidelines to the only touchdown of the game. Army 6, Navy 0. Receipts Or the jobless (via Salvation Army...