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Northwest Airlines Inc. flies over eight states and Canada. But its home port is St. Paul's Holman Municipal Airport, which lies in Ramsey County. In 1939 Ramsey County decided to slap a personal property tax on all of Northwest's planes, and sent it a bill for $16,913. Northwest objected, arguing: Northwest was already taxed on its planes by Minnesota and six other states, mainly on the mileage flown in each. Why should it pay a tax twice? Alarmed, the other 18 U.S. airlines joined Northwest in fighting...
Oregon Republicans rejected Senator Rufus Holman last week, and as a result the Republican Party looked a bit brighter all over the U.S. For bumbling Rufus Holman, 66, was an isolationist, a party hack, a reactionary, a labor baiter. His conqueror, making his first try for political office, was Wayne Lyman Morse, young (43), an internationalist, for two years the most effective member of Franklin Roosevelt's War Labor Board...
...Libby Holman, blues-singing widow of the late tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds, asked the Manhattan trustees of her eleven-year-old son Christopher Smith Reynolds' $7,000,000 estate to release $435,183.57 for the purpose of building him a "suitable and attractive" house...
Oregon's Rufus C. Holman proceeded to make the blurt-of-the-week: "It seems to me that the difficulty centers around the fact that the Commander in Chief of the Army is himself a candidate for the Presidency. If he would eliminate himself from that advantageous or unfair position, I think debate on the pending bill would cease...
Wayne Morse, who describes himself as a "progressive Republican," would draw his support from liberal elements in the G.O.P., and from those Oregonians who are as disgusted with Senator Holman's record of extreme reaction as with his isolationist attitudes...