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...distributor said the Board's ruling was "prejudiced" and based on "capricious thinking"; he questioned whether the board, which has permitted operation of these machines for the past ten years, should be arbitrary merely because it has the right. The Licensing Board's decision is final and not subject to City Council or City Manager approval...
Saying the Federal government had imposed a special tax on so-called gambling machines (those types employing multiple coin and free game devices which build up odds), the distributor asserted that his machines are purely for amusement...
...beseech thee, O Lord Almighty, master of the world, distributor of all properties, bless this house wherein shall be received and distributed the compulsory and just part of the riches of our community. Give to those who bring their taxes a spirit of detachment and sacrifice, to those who come to receive payment some of the spirit of wealth praised by our Lord Jesus Christ in the Book of Matthew...
...because they were popular already. But Clark has also spun his Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, which is just now beginning to climb into the big time. Clark insists that he has never taken payola in any form, and many support him, including ABC. Says a Philadelphia record distributor: "Dick is a living doll. I've offered him pieces of songs and gotten turned down cold...
...Oncle (which the distributor has rendered with accuracy and consummate disrespect for Americans' linguistic prowess, as My Uncle) is Jacques Tati's sequel to his immensely successful Mr. Hulot's Holiday. The newer movie retains as its hero, Hulot, the man of zany good sense and good will pitted against a world that takes itself awfully seriously but happens to be insane. Last time, Hulot attacked the concept of the holiday; now he is after modernism...