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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would accept my ad, there is a still more important question-what would be the cost of said ad? Here is the ad I would want...
...start a Grand Jury investigation of the Earle regime. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 6-to-1 Republican, refused to halt this move. Governor Earle then turned to the General Assembly, Democratic by 150-to-53 in the House, 34-to-16 in the Senate. A special session would cost Pennsylvania's taxpayers anywhere from $300,000 to $750,000 but Governor Earle called one, giving 23 reasons besides the chief one, which he said was: "To repel an unprecedented judicial invasion of the executive and legislative branches of our Government...
...Gadget Law. Every Indiana motorist was required to buy from the State for 25? a celluloid container for his registration card, which he had to stick on his windshield so that his name and address clearly showed. Aside from the probable graft involved in this 25? gadget which cost the State only 12½?, Hoosiers hated the gadgets because: they kept coming unstuck; they were fair game for forgers; they advertised a man's absence from home to burglars and gossips. Well aware of its increasing calibre as a political liability, the Legislature last week repealed the Gadget...
...Yangtze, supported by Japanese river gunboats and bombing planes, last week took the famed Chinese pottery centre, Kiukiang. their objective for the past month. In joyous terms, as though announcing a victory, the Chinese press boasted of the enormous quantities of shells and bombs the capture of Kiukiang had cost the Japanese. The heroic Chinese defenders of the Lion Hill Forts, sworn to fight to the last man rather than yield, were congratulated for having held out for 72 hours under heavy artillery fire before they fled...
Most startling of all, the War Secretary on one day promoted 2,000 army officers. Mr. Hore-Belisha's pen stroke will cost the British taxpayer $1,800.000 additional the first year in increased officers' pay, later $3,000,000 annually. Under the new regulations "all reasonably competent officers" can expect to serve at least ten years with the rank and pay of major, after which the less competent majors will be given a de luxe bums' rush out of the army, retiring at the early age of 47 to live for the rest of their lives...