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...word and deed we follow the lead...
...avoid the Federal inheritance tax many a wealthy man used to deed over most of his property to his intended heirs when he felt death overtaking him. So widespread became this type of tax evasion that Congress in 1926 amended the Internal Revenue Laws by inserting a provision (Section 302C) that all such gifts within two years of death were presumably made to cheat the U. S. Treasury and must be taxed as part of the final estate. Last week in Manhattan U. S. District Judge Alfred Conkling Coxe declared Section 302C unconstitutional as it deprived heirs of their property...
...that he promised to perform a miracle: he would cause the Garden of Eden to be transported wherever the Anglican parson wished, at precisely 11:30 the following night. Next evening they met; the parson chose Bass Rock, a little island some 20 miles away; Father Malachy prayed; the deed was done...
...Fascism says it is Catholic and wishes to be Catholic. Now in order to be Catholics not in name only but in deed also; in order to be true, good Catholics, not Catholics of false name and Catholics who in the great family of the church wound the heart of Mother Church by their manner of speaking and acting and give such a bad example as to drive others away, there is only one indispensable means?to obey the Church and its head and to think with the Church and its head...
...peasants for the Vagabond are a half mad lot. He sees them as a race of men who in one hand hold a knife over the head of a fair daughter, and in the other grasp a bottle of Vodka with which to wash away memory of the ugly deed. And the nobility, they carry on scandalously. Understand that this is only an impression gained of Russia which the Vagabond has created from his readings. He is a highly imaginative fellow with a passion for the sordid...