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...TIME reader who picks up the gauntlet flung by Challenger Webb bear well in mind these basic facts: ¶The $1,888,000,000 tax revenue of the U. S. during the fiscal year 1932 was derived 60% from the income tax. Of the personal income tax (1930). 18 1/3 % was paid by 0.4% of those filing returns. ¶The capital sum borrowed by the Allies from the U. S. totaled approximately $10,000,000,000. the greater part of which was to be repaid at 4¼%. Since the term of repayment was always envisaged as extremely long...
...Venetian Ambassador. For the Republic had challenged once again the temporal sovereignty of the 'Vatican, and the explanations of its ambassador were exercises in the arrogant rhetoric of the Renaissance. To a pope who reckoned his reign by the cities he had conquered, every pharse was a gauntlet thrown down: "If Venice does not bow to my wishes," he exclaimed, "I will grind it lower than a fishing village." The reply was a challenge to battle. 'If Your Holiness does not yield to Venice, we will grind you lower than a village priest...
...novel is very well done. I have just published a novel myself which has been described as 'having a respect for the decencies'-presumably because that is so unusual a thing." Books written by Author-Publisher Lord Gorell include: Babes in the African Wood; Rosamund; Plush; Gauntlet (1931). To the Baron last week Prince George wrote a gracious acknowledgment on the stationery for which he recently designed his own monogram: an Old English G, surmounted by a coronet and surrounded by the Garter. (Same monogram on his handkerchiefs.) "Prince George is," declared a St. James's Palace...
...America is seriously threatened. The greatest danger arises from the joining of the forces of the gutter Anarchists with the so-called intelligentsia in our educational institutions." With this ringing challenge, Edwin Marshall Hadley, casts the gauntlet at the feet of American education and its brothers-in-crime, The Federation of Churches, the League of Nations, Soviet Russia, Albert Einstein, and the Harvard Liberal Club. From the excerpts, relating to the American College, from his book, T. N. T., and quoted elsewere in these columns, it is possible to sample the vitriol with which Mr. Hadley would fortify every good...
Latest U. S.-owned steamer to get in Yangtze trouble is the Iping. Scuddling down the river's rapids, she bumped herself on a rock, limped on, ran a gauntlet of Communist fire, escaped toward Ichang. Next day "friendly" Government artillery suddenly surprised the Iping with shrapnel, desperately wounded two Chinese passengers, put a slug in the leg of Leo Bradley, able seaman U. S. N. Promptly other U. S. Naval guards on the Iping got her guns into action, silenced the Chinese battery with an Imperialist cannonade...