Word: lives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fathers of the busted City of Brotherly Love adopted a desperate measure. They levied a flat 1½% income tax on all wages or salaries earned in the city.-Beginning next Jan. 1, everybody's paycheck may be clipped-whether they are bankers, WPA-sters, or suburbanites who live elsewhere but work in Philadelphia. Only ones sure of exemption are corporations, which already pay a State levy and cannot be doubly taxed. A few unions squawked that employers would have to up wages 1½%. But the mass of citizens sleepily accepted the fact that somewhere, somehow, their town...
...days later, the Vice President decided he had been called. It was the coldest day of the year: South Texas hunters knew deer would be running by the next dawn. While Lucas Zamora, the Mexican yard man, hung precariously in the tops of the live oaks, hacking out deadwood, and "Bertie," the cook, bustled about the kitchen "fixin' company dinner"; while Mrs. Ettie Garner tended her correspondence in the little office-house in the back yard; in the Garner garage Uvalde's garageman, Ross Brumfield, for 20 years the "Boss's" hunting companion, stowed away hunting gear...
...aisles to dance a Boomps-a-Daisy with members of the audience, up rose Al Smith to tread a measure with alacrity and abandon, drew a storm of applause for being both a good boompser and a good sport. A little later Funnyman Robert Benchley was presented with a live chicken, Little-Man-What-Next Billy Rose with a child's potty-chair...
Febrile, fantastic Jean Cocteau, France's No. i playboy of the intellect, left the Paris Ritz to live on a houseboat and do war work. His war work, said he, would be writing a play about love, explained: "Love and War are the only two eternal themes. But when making one it is best to talk about the other...
...Indianapolis hospital, three years ago, interns carried a screaming two-year-old girl who had just fallen over backwards into a scalding tub of water. Her burns were not deep, but they stretched from her plump shoulders to her knees. She had a 1-to-3 chance to live...