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From another sector of the courtroom the jury was scrutinized by a swart, heavy Hawaiian who wore spectacles and chewed gum. A trolley motorman. he was Joseph Kahahawai. It was his son and namesake whom Mrs. Fortescue, Lieut. Massie and the two sailors were accused of kidnapping last January from the steps of the same courthouse, shooting to death in the Fortescue cottage and then carrying out toward Koko Head, where they were arrested. Father Kahahawai was there to watch U. S. justice done. Near the defendants sat the other figure most involved in the Territory's most sensational...
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...
...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...