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...States, independent retailers' cries of oppression by chain-store competition have been quieted by chain-store taxes.* Particularly stiff are Florida's; only Idaho has comparably severe rates. Florida's Cotton Mather, less fanatical but no less shrewd than his ancestor, worked out a system which he thought had the tax witch lashed to the stake: he organized his 15 stores under seven loosely knit corporations, no one of which held more than three stores. Under Florida's system of graduation, paying taxes on several small chains is small potatoes to paying on one large chain...
...when Charles Darwin, armed with a mass of scientific facts, suggested that man had an ape ancestor, enthusiastic converts to his theory of evolution immediately pictured a great-grandfather-&-son development of gorilla or chimpanzee into Homo sapiens. Subsequent unearthing of scattered thighbones, skullcaps, jaws and teeth led to many diverging theories of the ape's transition, showed that evolution is as unstraightforward as the relationship of second cousins once removed, that it moves in zigzags, circles, spirals...
Most Japanese (46,000,000 of them) are adherents of Buddhism, for three centuries, until 1868, the official religion of Japan. However, Shintoism ("The Way of the Gods"), a native Japanese system of nature and ancestor worship, commands the allegiance of 17,000,000. There are two forms of Shintoism, one divided into many small religious sects, the other attached to the State and called "Shrine Shinto." Whether the latter is a religion at all is today a matter of great controversy. A State commission, established in 1929, spent four years pondering it without reaching a unanimous conclusion. The Japanese...
NOBODY'S IN TOWN-Edna Ferber- Doubleday, Doran ($2). Two novelettes- one about a Midwesterner married to a New York socialite, the other about rich New Yorkers who complain bitterly of the hardships of a Pullman trip over the route taken by their pioneer ancestor-demonstrating, with Ferber dummies and sound truck, that rich people are not living up to pioneer traditions...
...brother Francis, lawyer and onetime chairman of the first National Labor Relations Board, in a blue coat, and the youngest of the Biddle brothers, Sydney, a Philadelphia psychiatrist. Absent is the eldest brother, Moncure ("Monk") Biddle. An investment broker, he alone of the four upholds the tradition of their ancestor, Nicholas Biddle, who was president of the Bank of the United States and Andrew Jackson's great antagonist (and incidentally the first benefactor of the Pennsylvania Academy). Commissioned by Brother Francis, the painting was done during the hottest part of last July, which is why "they all look sort...