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...Mexico City U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels, having complained to the Mexican Government, was informed that the tax could not be suspended or revoked except by the improbable consent of the Mexican Congress. But while exporters grumbled and protested, it was already apparent that Mexico like other governments which try to plug income tax loopholes was not going to be 100% successful. Foreign sellers promptly treated the tax like an import duty, added 3% to their invoice prices, thus passed the bulk of the new tax to the down-trodden Mexican who will eventually buy their products...
This week genial U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels, fresh from a conference with President Roosevelt, informed the Mexican Government that "Washington is interested in the situation confronting the petroleum companies." Fear that the U. S. $200,000,000 oil interests, the U. S. $500,000,000 mining interests will be squeezed out by taxation, higher wage demands, has been haunting American industrialists in Mexico during Cardenas' term. Taking the first important formal step affecting U. S.-Mexican relations in four years, the Ambassador warned that "anything that would disturb the status quo and good relations would be regretted...
Birthday. Owen Josephus Roberts, youngest Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court: 62; in Washington...
After a thorough and exhaustive search of various Bibles, Bible dictionaries, abridged and unabridged dictionaries, the works of Josephus, The Bible Concordance, etc., I found that Goliath could have been anywhere between 6 ft. 6 in. and 11 ft. 4½ in. tall. His brass breastplate weighed between 156 and 312 lb. His iron spear tip weighed about...
...Bible states that Goliath was six cubits and a span in height. Josephus says he was four cubits and a span in height...