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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...example, that the Board of Tax Appeals is already 20,000 cases or three years in arrears. Then after stating with just pride that no one had ever charged corruption against the Bureau of Internal Revenue, he concluded: "The real issue is whether the income tax is to be ad ministered by the executive branch of the government in accordance with every precedent and every sound principle of gov ernment, or is to be turned over to the judicial branch...
Arthur Chester Millspaugh, who was Administrator General of Persian Finances until he quarreled with the Finance Minister of King Rega Pahlevi (TIME, Aug. 8, 1927), resigned last week as Financial Ad viser to the Republic of Haiti, a post which he has held since 1927. Ever inclined to be secretive, Professor Mills paugh declined to indicate the reason...
...Introibo ad altare del. ... "I will go in unto the altar of God. Unto God, Who giveth joy to my youth...
...Socialist votes were impotent to elect that party's hastily improvised candidate, Herr Doktor Karl Renner, onetime Socialist Chancellor (1919). Had the deadlock continued after the term of President Hainisch expired, last week, he would have been automatically succeeded by Chancellor Seipel, who would have become President ad interim. Above all Socialists did not want that. Therefore they abstained, 91 strong, thus permitting the election by only 94 votes of Dr. Wilhelm Miklas, an unimportant figure, though Speaker of Parliament...
...Sculptor Brancusi's bird had neither head, feet nor feathers. It was four and a half feet of bronze which swooped up from its base like a slender jet of flame. Customs Inspector Kracke said it was not art; merely "a manufacture of metal . . . held dutiable at 40% ad valorem." The press bantered, jibed. Indignant modernists wrote abstruse, defensive paragraphs. Sculptor Brancusi complained to the Customs Court...