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...Heavier opposition than Bates will undoubtedly be discovered in the shape of the New Hampshire Wildcats next Saturday, and a truer test of the Crimson calibre should be made. Coach Cowell is bringing down from the hills practically the same team which polished off Brown last year. Two seasons ago the Wildcats came down a trifle too confidently and went back with their tails between their legs, but this year Harvard can hardly expect any such walkover as that 35 to 0 drubbing...
Generally considered the '"brains" of the House Ways & Means Committee where all tax legislation originates, Representative Isaac ("Ike") Bacharach of New Jersey simultaneously suggested an increase in the surtax rate (now 20%) on incomes above $100,000, heavier inheritance taxes, a sales tax on "luxuries and non-essentials." Said...
...chance you have never read one of her books, Susan Spray is a good one to begin on. If you fear being bored to extinction by heavy dialect and heavy characters clodhopping to a country tragedy, take heart: there is enough irony, humanity, sly humor to leaven a much heavier lump...
Traffic in the Ausable valley has, however, grown no heavier. Last week the Public Service Commission, looking no doubt at D&H's net operating income ($1,585.000 for the first seven months this year against $2,663.000 last) took pity and reversed its decision. Passengers up Ausable valley must now travel by omnibus along the fine concrete highway that parallels the rails...
...Jack Dempsey, got him selected as an opponent for Sharkey. Kearns wanted to bet any part of $100,000 that Walker would win; but the odds, when the fighters went into the ring, were 3 to i, with Sharkey the favorite. Sharkey weighed 198 lb., Walker, a little heavier than had been expected...