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Guards: J. D. Esterly '33; W. K. Ginman '32; Isaac Harter, Jr. '34; H. C. McClees '34; B. M. Myerson '32; E. J. Rogers '34; and G. N. Talbot...
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...
Died, Louis K. Clothier. 25, nephew of Department Store Owner Isaac Hallowell Clothier (Strawbridge & Clothier); and Lieut. C. Thoburn ("Toby") Maxwell of the Pennsylvania National Guard, his Swarthmore classmate (1928) and flying instructor; in an airplane accident in which Instructee Clothier failed by two feet to clear the edge of a quarry near Norristown...
...been kidnapped by the gang formerly headed by Fred ("Killer") Burke of St. Louis, where the kidnapping business is so highly developed that socialites leave their expensive cars in their garages and go to parties in inconspicuous small cars. Kidnapped this year in St. Louis were strapping Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley Jr. (TIME, May 11) and Adolphus Busch Orthwein. 13, grandson of President August A. Busch of Anheuser-Busch. Inc. (TIME, Jan. 12). Kidnapped near Chicago four months ago was a gambler named James Hackett, whose seizure Investigator Roche blamed on the Burke gang. Hackett was freed...
...subsidized by race-proud Jews. Its advertising revenue nearly met expenses until the current Depression. As advertising fell off, the editorial content grew sloppy. Publisher Bernard Edelhertz worried himself ill over the problem, went into his closet and hanged himself (TIME, July 27). The magazine's president & editor, Isaac Landman, editor-in-chief of the forthcoming Jewish Encyclopedia, already had accepted a call to return to the rabbinate. Who, then, could take the American Hebrew's burden upon his shoulders and lead it out of its wilderness? He should be a man respected within and without his race...