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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidates who wished to circulate campaign literature were compelled by a new law to do so through the Government, and peasants appeared puzzled to be handed by one local official in their village half a dozen different appeals. By this new system, as an eminent Japanese remarked, "Our elections have been purged of much bribery and corruption and of all political importance." This overstatement did not take account of the fact that Japan's dominant militarists are by & large against the Rich, whom they consider chicken-hearted profiteers, and for the Poor, in whom they fancy reside sterling Japanese...
...Fels's corporate reticence is largely modesty. Born in Yanceyville, N. C. 76 years ago, he got into soap when the soap works was next to the local slaughterhouse. Fels introduced naptha into the soapmaker's art in the 1890's, still has a virtual monopoly on naptha soap...
Shortly after the gold seizure Joseph T. Higgins, local Collector of Internal Revenue, slapped income tax liens for $740,000 on Zelik Josefowitz, Z. Josefowitz and Frieda Josefowitz of Zurich, Switzerland; for $258,000 on Gregori Josefowitz, care of Lawrence Mead, 20 Place Vendôme, Paris; for $24.50 on Selman Josefowitz, also of Zurich. The two major items consisted of 1934, 1935 and 1936- taxes of $573,000 plus penalties...
...Tulsa, Okla., a group of domestic science teachers, doctors and socialites ate crow at a formal dinner to prove that crow is good to eat. Local market price for crow...
Declared Verner W. Main, a Michigan Republican elected to the House last year with the aid of local Townsendites (TIME, Dec. 30) : "I am in favor of the investigation but I don't think we ought to spend $25,000 or $50,000 cutting down a beanstalk to see why Jack doesn't fall. . . . You are attempting to do that which Canute of old failed to do, when he made his futile gesture of commanding the ocean to recede...