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This week once again the great American taxpayer-that irascible and yet docile composite of the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Senator Taft, John L. Lewis and the fellow next door-was working over his income-tax return. He did not do the job happily, or-in a year when he couldn't quite decide whether his country was at peace or at war-even very patriotically. The feeling that an enormous eye in Washington watched him as he wrote down his deductions was often all that kept him from cheating-and sometimes that...
...when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it . . . under a light, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light. St. Luke, Chapter 11, Verse...
Road, where he and his brothers collect art and lavishly entertain visiting mob chieftains. Those that didn't fade were mortally embarrassed by the subpoena servers. "They went around to the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker," complained Joe Adonis. "They made slurring remarks...
...matter. Already a very active contributor to the "noncontributory" coal miners' pension fund, and with prospects of shortly assuming similar paternalism in behalf of the steel worker I don't see how I can conscientiously fail to do as well by the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker...
...German educational caste system. After the fourth grade of elementary school, only 10% of German children have the money or social position to get into secondary schools (roughly equivalent to U.S. prep schools); the other 90% get four years' vocational training, then become Germany's butchers, bakers & candlestick makers. A majority of German children have to choose their vocations before they are 14-and stick to their choice. The mission urged the U.S. to make all German secondary schools tuition-free, root out the old caste distinctions. Said the report: "This system has cultivated attitudes of superiority...