Word: gum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before breath-bated galleries the House of Representatives last week completed its great tax-juggling act. For three exciting weeks its tossings and catchings? and droppings?had kept the legislative air alive with fur coats and chewing gum, diamond rings and matches, motor trucks and penny candy, yachts and 3¢ stamps, radios and bottled "pop." Hundred-million-dollar levies were twirled around like so many rubber balls. As in a knife-throwing exhibition, it pitched sharp imposts at individuals and industries. It juggled normal rates, surtax rates, corporation rates, gift rates, inheritance rates, stock rates, dividend rates into a high...
...furs ($15,000,000); on jewelry ($15,000,000); on sporting goods and cameras ($6,500,000); on yachts & motor boats ($500,000); on firearms and ammunition ($2,500,000). Matches were to be taxed 4¢ per 1,000 to raise $11,000,000, chewing gum and candy 5% to bring in another $15,000,000, mechanical refrigerators, radios and phonographs 5% for another...
...boards of several Wrigley-controlled companies, including Chicago National League Ball Club. Unlike Alice Foote MacDougall (see p. 55), Ada E. Foote Wrigley (no kin) will not take over active management of her husband's affairs. She does not need to. Active head of William Wrigley Jr. Co. (gum), to the board of which she will not be elected, is her son President Philip Knight Wrigley, 38. His chief business ability is in advertising ; outside of the office his consuming interests are in mechanics, electricity, photography. He repairs his three Packards and three Duesenbergs by himself, likewise tinkers his radios...
...cents will still buy two boxes of matches or two pieces of slot-machine gum or two peeps at a bathing beauty undressing in a penny arcade. But after April 1 two cents will no longer be sufficient to post one letter to any foreign country...
...memorial service to the late Gum Man William Wrigley Jr. in Chicago's smart St. Chrysostom's last month was graced with ushers from Wrigley Baseball Field and a carillonneur who sweetly ding-donged Aloha Oe, the gum man's favorite tune. Rev. John Crippen Evans, associate rector of fashionable St. Chrysostom's, eulogized Mr. Wrigley thus: "He was a boy at 70, and that is a real achievement. It is in that sort of attainment that the Christian pulpit is primarily interested, because the message of the pulpit is wholly concerned with life-life that...