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...impounded processing taxes were not to be confused with the near billion of processing taxes which the Government had actually collected. The Treasury never got its hands on the impounded money, which remained in custody of various Federal Courts. When AAA had been declared invalid, and a rehearing of the case denied, the Federal Judges released the impounded taxes, most of which the processors have already recovered. The $1,000,000,000 will be much more difficult to get back. In 1935 the original AAAct was amended to provide that, even if the law were declared unconstitutional, the processor could...
...Roosevelt's suggestion the automotive year was shoved ahead two months to flatten the curve of employment in the industry. And while more automobiles were made and sold in the last three months of 1935 than in any other fourth quarter in U. S. history, comparisons were quite invalid, inasmuch as previous periods included, not the post-automobile show selling season, but the annual shutdowns for retooling. However, November shows are apparently here to stay despite the fact that an early start has created a problem which last week had the motor industry by the ears. That problem...
Miss Nethersole, far from cashing in on this priceless publicity, closed Sapho and went to bed an invalid. She never forgave the U. S. After War broke out, she joined the British Red Cross and began building a reputation of another kind. She became a crusader for Public Health, working up to a learned monograph on Milk Production & Distribution in Relation to Nutrition & Disease and calling her Hampstead retreat the Vale of Health. For all this her Commandership was last week a just reward...
...muted, and in which an occasional tentative note of concern and passion is apparent between the lines. Most of Peggy Bacon's poems and pictures are impressions of city life, ranging from a glimpse of a laborer asleep in a subway to a literary party, from a professional invalid who needs "a wrap, a steak, a toddy and a kick!" to a celebrity who seems "so small beneath her crown!" A contrast between a farmer's "quilted hills" and a desolate city ruin suggests the type of life Peggy Bacon opposes to that which she satirizes. One surprisingly...
When this explanation was not readily forthcoming, she undertook the defense. "Regina in tonight's play would never have stayed in that gloomy house to take care of an invalid under any conditions. She was too full of the joy of life to allow herself to be cooped by with as invalid...