Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested in knowing of the further progress of the 10% pamphlet we made reprinting FORTUNE'S now famous article of the international munition business, "Arms and the Men." Because this pamphlet is sold at cost, it is not available at bookstores (who would have to add their markup, charge about 16(!). "Arms and the Men" can be had only by sending io(' to Garden 'City, and the only notice that it can so be had appeared in the correspondence column of TIME, yet it is selling faster than Anthony Adverse. Our first printing of 2,500 copies...
...Federal Government. After Appomattox they might have gone bankrupt had not a man named Henry W. King joined the firm. War had ruined their southern business, so Henry W. King opened a store in Chicago. It made so much money that the Brownings were glad to add his name to their corporate title, open other stores in the West. Browning, King had a chain of haberdasheries while the late James Butler, founder of the first grocery chain, was still a farm hand in Kilkenny...
...Miller's ironic letter in Thursday's CRIMSON succeeded so well in satirizing the usual ROTC-CRIMSON attitude toward the National Student League that we have little to add on that point. But as a matter of interest, many of your readers will no doubt be surprised to know that the use of sterilization as a weapon against political dissenters is a serious threat, if not an actual fact, at present in Germany. For this reason we believe Mr. Miller's letter, though an excellent job, wad ill-advised in choosing sterilization as the reductie ad absurdum of reactionary terrorism...
Melvin F. Hill, Jr. 36, Roger G. Rand Jr. '35, Howard F. Gillette, Jr. '35, John M. Towle '34 and John H. Bartol '36, will oppose Tufts in an effort to add a second victory to the Junior Varsity's record...
Last week Congress made up its dual mind on how it was going to tax the country next year and sent to President Roosevelt a bill which his signature would make the Revenue Act of 1934. The new law, it was estimated, would add some $417,000,000 per year to the Treasury's present income. Collections would have been $55,000,000 more if a Senate amendment for a flat 10% addition to all income taxes had not been rejected by the House. Persons with earned incomes of less than $25,000 get a small tax reduction. Corporations...