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...potatoes indeed for a man of his parts-as in if and how he would elude punishment. After Inquisitor Seabury had further showed last week that the promoters of a bus company had bought Mayor Walker a $10,000 letter of credit, later extended by $3,000, for his junket to Europe in 1927, the chase approached its most exciting stage-Mayor Walker on the stand in his own defense...
...Walker had succeeded in getting a franchise for Equitable Coach Co., but a day before his signature made the franchise effective, the syndicate's "entertainer," one J. Allan Smith, bought the Mayor's $10,000 letter of credit. Next day the Mayor sailed for Europe on a junket which proved so costly that Mr. Smith had to settle an overdraft...
...Bevan's wealth, which permits him a capacious apartment on Chicago's Gold Coast, a house in Lake Forest and an annual junket to California, derives only in small part from his practice. In 1896 he married Anna L. Barber, sole heir to the late Match Tycoon Ohio Columbus Barber (1841-1920). Dr. Bevan is a large stockholder, a potent director of the $42,000,000 Diamond Match...
...sales tax was suspected of trying to wriggle out of income taxes. Chief sponsor for the current Sales Tax was a wealthy capitalist, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose papers attempted to convince their poor plain readers that such an impost was good for them. Mr. Hearst sent a congressional junket to Canada to study the 4% Sales Tax there (TIME, Nov. 30). The idea was put before the Ways & Means Committee by his spokesmen when it was drafting the revenue bill with advice from an imported Canadian expert (TIME, March 7). Scant hearings were held. The rank & file...
Hearst's Universal Service, which arranged the sales-tax-study junket, was TIME's source for the information that Senator Gore made a speech at a state dinner in Ottawa, in the course of which he rendered Four & 20 blackbirds Got a little dry . . . etc., etc. On the junket were four and 70 people, including four and 60 members of Congress. Senator Gore added that this party had not come to drink rye. But liquor was served them everywhere except at U. S. Minister Hanford MacNider's tea party. TIME gladly prints Senator Gore's denial...