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...subject of taxing every corporation's undistributed income under a blanket rule, Mr. May referred to the phantasmagoria of special terms and exceptions which the House Ways & Means Committee had produced in its efforts to correct specific injustices, observed: "I do not think it is possible to anticipate all the serious injustices. . . . Once you begin to make exceptions there is no logical place at which you can stop...
...some time it has been realized that a standard entrance requirement is in effect unfair to a certain percentage of those seeking admission. Students more developed than the majority of their fellows have entered Harvard with honors, but have been held back for a year by the present unwise blanket system of elementary requirements...
Yesterday in the absence of both Governor Chandler and Lieut. Governor Johnson, Governor pro tern J. E. Wise, reinstated the 17,000 with a blanket reappointment...
...betting windows rushed a fortunate few to collect $43 for every $2 wager, longest Derby odds since 1918. Bold Venture earned $37,725, got a blanket of roses, the privilege of having his name on the Churchill Downs gate five panels away from that of his half-brother Twenty Grand, winner in 1931. Jockey Hanford, undismayed by a 15-day suspension given him for "rough riding," chortled: "They've suspended me? They've set me down? Well, I guess I'll go out in the barn and spend the 15 days feeding sugar to that horse...
...home comforts of its latest troopship, H. M. S. Dilwara. Intended for ferrying men to India and Egypt, it is completely air-conditioned, contains a cinema and game room and as a special attraction a gaudy nursery for the children of married soldiers. All the hobby horses carry the blanket insignia of famed Indian cavalry regiments...