Word: courting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens who sat in on the bill's preliminary drafting thought an income tax would be fair enough, partly because 36 of the 48 States now have such taxes either personal, corporate or both, partly because it appeared, in the light of this year's Supreme Court decisions, that Federal employes would share such a tax-and U. S. workers constitute about one-fifth of the District's population...
Whether Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was then waging an undeclared war of sabotage on the U. S. was the issue in the famed, long-lived Black Tom and Kingsland Cases. Last week no less an adjudicator than Supreme Court Justice Owen Josephus Roberts found that Germany 1) did indeed war by sabotage on the U. S. and other neutrals; 2) caused the Black Tom and Kingsland disasters (killing three men and a child) ; and 3) by continuously presenting perjured testimony, through its Foreign Office officials tried to hide the proof of its guilt. Therefore, said he, Germany must...
...mummy it has been a trying year. Pleaded she in Surrogate's Court: "It will cost approximately 50% more for maintenance than prior to the infant's coming out. Your petitioner has no money of her own." The court spotted her an extra $52,000 out of Daughter Brenda's $154,000 income (from an estate held in trust until Brenda...
Declared Dead. New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater, Tammanyite, missing since Aug. 6, 1930; in Manhattan...
...Croydon, England, Mrs. Julia Baxter appeared in Bankruptcy Court. Her reasons: on a ?500 loan she recovered only ?175; crooked employes ruined her two business ventures; she lost ?22 gambling; burglars stole her jewelry. Asked why she had not sought her husband's financial advice, she replied: I found I had married a man with no brains...