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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Direct taxation has been a source of trouble in the past and will probably continue to be so in the future. Unless the deflcit is met by increased taxes, however, the country as a whole will suffer indirectly through higher prices. A billion dollar deflcit is a heavy load under any circumstances, but a raise in taxes now will strain national credit less in the future than would wide-spread borrowing by the federal government, which is the course of least resistance at the present time...
...thoroughbred racing camel can run 150 mi. a day, carry a pack load three days without water. The best racers are Mehara dromedaries. They are mostly bred by that old tribe whose men haughtily and in disdain of modern usage still wear veils with their black tunics: the Tuaregs. The riders sit on small saddle-platforms placed in front of the dromedary's single hump. They hold rods in their hands and reach forward with a peculiar, tense movement to tap the camel on the left side of the neck when they want him to turn right...
High ran the hopes of the Wets last December when U. S. District Court Judge William Clark, at Newark, N. J., handed down a decision that the 18th Amendment was invalid. Judge Clark, in quashing an indictment brought against one William Sprague for transporting a truck load of beer, had contended that the 18th Amendment should have been ratified by State conventions (representing the People) rather than by State legislatures (TIME, Dec. 29). Last week it was the Drys' turn for jubilance. Acting for the U. S. Supreme Court, speaking before a courtroom crowded but orderly, tall, bespectacled Associate...
...Dartmouth team gathered the first 12 points of the game in a style which left the Harvard men dazed but resentful: the University quintet then staged a determined come-back, under the load of Captain T. E. Farrell '31. The score at half-time...
...Colonial once stood old Fort Nassau where the pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, used to water his ships, count his loot. A wily ruffian, he wore his luxurious whiskers in fine points, braided them with gay ribbons in peace, with smouldering slow matches in war. Bootleggers load their ships at Nassau today. Not far from the New Colonial Hotel is the Bahamian Club, a discreet drinking, gambling resort that used to be operated by the late "Honest John" Kelly of New York. Here, shortly before Chicago's famed Valentine Day Massacre of 1929, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone...