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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personal surtaxes which Mr. Bache would have had to pay if he received it directly. From his company he borrowed $2,300,000 in 1932 and in 1934 the interest which he then paid the company canceled out his remaining U. S. income, thereby making him virtually income-tax-free. He also formed a Bahama corporation to hold his stock interest in Canadian mines. Said Mr. Irey: "Mr. Bache apparently acted with an honest conviction that he was within his legal rights in utilizing foreign corporations as he did. We therefore cite this case not in criticism of Mr. Bache...
...most generally attended of all newspaper conventions in the history of the country," and italicizing the fact that it would be limited to "executives from the home office," Publisher Stahlman & friends summed up their clarion call thus: "[The closed shop] is a most serious threat to a free press, and consequently to the liberties of a free people. Many publishers throughout the country have already expressed the feeling that the newspapers should stand together against this common danger. . . . We cannot urge you too strongly to attend...
...appeared to register. Most ingenious recreation of Joe Gish was Ephraim di Kahble, conceived in 1935 by a group from the then freshman class. The freshmen rented and furnished a boarding house room for Ephraim di Kahble, inserted an advertisement under his name in the Daily Princetonian offering a free ride in a Lincoln phaeton to the Yale game in New Haven which drew 50 replies, were finally exposed when Ephraim di Kahble advertised in the New York Times for an orange-&-black guinea...
...arsenal, Lovett and Nancy, helped by the cabin boy (Mickey Rooney), held the wheel against the ruffian mutineers. At St. Helena, Mate Thompson, with the gallows in his mind, planned to destroy evidence by linking the slaves' fetters to the anchor chain and dropping anchor. In a free-for-all, Skipper Lovett freed most of the blackbirds, shot Thompson in the belly. Put on trial for slaving, Lovett admitted his guilt. Nancy's testimony, in the picture's best dramatic scene, saves his life...
...Alone Lost ($2), sharp, readable but disorderly free verse by Robert McAlmon, who published Ernest Hemingway's first book in the Contact Editions, Paris...