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Examples of remote control which made Albany last week's capital of the U. S.: Taxation, Newsmen pardonably assumed that Chairman Collier of the House Ways & Means Committee was speaking with the sanction of the President-elect when he declared: "I'd rather have the dentist pull my back teeth than support a sales tax, but I don't see any other alternative if we're going to balance the Budget." Chimed in Speaker Garner who as Vice President-elect is supposed to know the Roosevelt mind: "If it is necessary to have a manufacturers...
Last week House Ways & Means Chairman Collier announced: "In order to balance the budget at this session I'll support the sales tax as a last resort. I want the new administration to have a clear sheet March...
...Passed (230-10-165) without amendment a bill by Mississippi's Collier legalizing and taxing 3.2%; sent it to the Senate...
Died. Levi Cooke, 50, Washington beer lobbyist, lawyer, potent in pushing the Collier beer bill through the House of Representatives (TIME, Dec. 26); of acute indigestion; in Washington. Beer associate of St. Louis' Adolphus Busch and Manhattan's Col. Jacob Ruppert, he long lobbied for the U. S. Brewers' Association, led the American Bar Association fight to abolish "lame duck" sessions of Congress, at one of which his beer bill was finally passed...
...selecting All-America football teams starts about the middle of November when sportswriters, coaches and colyumists begin to air their views. It goes on until Sportswriter Grantland Rice, who is generally considered to be the Ail-American selector of All-America teams because he inherited the job with Collier's from the late Walter Camp, announces his selections. The Grantland Rice All-America team for 1932, compiled with the aid of seven sportswriters who saw the teams which Grantland Rice missed...