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Bond sales were to be taxed ?% (estimated yield, $25,000,000), real estate conveyances, 50?? per $500 ($10,000,000), and future contracts in the produce markets 5¢ per $100 ($6,000,000). The security holder who escaped these levies by keeping his assets in a safety deposit box would have to pay 10% to the U. S. on the box's rental...
...estate tax was doubled and a levy rising as high as 30% was imposed on all gifts over $3,000. A 10% tax will be collected on all amusement admissions of 25¢ or more. Telephone and telegraph messages costing from 31¢ to 49¢ will be taxed 5¢, those costing 50?? or more, 10?...
...hungry individuals he, his followers and most "right thinking" people vigorously damn as a "dole." To make direct aid by the Treasury unnecessary, the White House coordinated a nation-wide campaign for private contributions to local charity to sustain the needy, stressed "individual initiative," "community responsibility." But for every 50?? thus voluntarily contributed, governments? city, county. State ? are spending $1 in tax money to relieve mass distress. If a "dole" consists of public support of the needy, countless jobless are already on a "dole...
...First prize, $10,000, was to go to the holder of the ticket with numbers most nearly corresponding to the date of the first suicide from the new bridge, the age, weight, height of the victim. Angry police found plenty of holders who had bought tickets for 50?? but searched in vain for the sellers. Coroner Leonardo, remembering that in a similar lottery at Niagara Falls a corpse had been placed in the gorge to "throw" the prize, promised that when the first suicide was committed he would keep the victim's specifications a deep secret...
...suspended June 19, 1930 when his firm, Woody & Co., found itself insolvent because of the transactions of Partner Woody's Partner-brother-in-law Harold ("Night") Ryder. Creditors of Woody & Co. whose claims were more than $1,000 each received 45¢ on the dollar, those with smaller claims, 50?...