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...gallon, although most State taxes are only 3 ?or 4? per gallon. On top of that there is a Federal tax of 1? per gallon, making a total direct tax on gasoline sold in Hancock County of 10? or about 100% of its wholesale price. To add insult to injury Mississippi imposes a State sales tax which does not exempt the already heavily taxed gasoline, as is the practice in almost all the States having sales taxes...
Lawyer Timothy Pfeiffer (to his client) : I don't think he intended to insult...
What do you mean by calling buyers of sweepstake tickets "simpletons" in your story on the running of the Grand National in the March 29 issue? You insult the backbone of this country. If I was a subscriber to your magazine I would cancel my subscription...
Wilbur Burton Foshay, whose $50,000,000 Northwestern utilities empire ranked second only to Samuel Insult's, was released from Leavenworth Penitentiary after serving five years of a 15-year term for mail fraud, straggled home to Minneapolis to look for a job, had to ask permis-ion to step on the African mahogany floors in his former office in the Foshay Tower. "Rebuild my empire? God. man, how can I?" moaned he. "I haven't a penny. Not one red cent...
...Umberto which was to have represented His Majesty at the British Coronation. Reason: Vittorio Emanuele III and his subjects, including Il Duce, are united in considering His Majesty not only King of Italy but also Emperor of Ethiopia, united too in refusing to stomach what they call the "British insult" de livered when George VI invited Haile Selassie to send a native delegation "to represent the Ethiopian Emperor at the Coronation." This hot quarrel last week made sure of a snub in Rome for British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond when he called to ask the Italian Foreign Office whether further...