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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avoidance, the President cheerily defined, was what tax evasion became when a rich man hired a $250,000 lawyer to change the word. One way to avoid taxes, and one which cost the Government a lot of money, was to form family trust funds. One U. S. family, he declared, had its fortune split up into 197 such funds...
...Republicans," polling them on their preferences for Republican nominee in 1936, exhorting them: "All this scared-rabbit talk about 'You can't beat a man with four billion dollars' is just the kind of propaganda weak-kneed Republican leaders have been swallowing for five years A lot of hooey! Let's get behind a leader with some guts for the fight and in 90 days you'll see a reborn Republican Party in this country . . . and with the battle cry 'Save the Constitution' sweeping all before it. Just remember Valley Forge...
...prideful lot were the nerve specialists who met in London last week for an International Neurological Congress. To them, the brain, cathedral of human intelligence, is no more than 2½ lb. of raw meat, the cerebrospinal nervous system, conveyor of human will to muscles, a set of puppeteer's strings; the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, a network of complex paths, lanes, byways and highways through which the human soul moves strangely. To know the complexities of the neural ways and cords and of the cerebral mass requires a chess player's intricate mentality. To dare...
...work as Brady, Universal paid Edward Arnold $5,000 a week, ordered him to fatten up. Eating is Actor Arnold's only hobby. In his dressing room, the only one on the Universal lot with a private kitchen, he consumed enormous lunches of boiled beef with horseradish sauce, crawfish, Wiener Schnitzel and beer. He took pleasure in eating on the set, put on 15 lb. while the picture was in production. At the Beverly Crest house where he lives with his wife and three children, and where each piece of furniture is tagged with a brass plate giving...
Scot, a Spaniard, a Pole and two U. S. natives. Rated best of the lot were the Russian, William Samuel Schwartz, and the two U. S. natives, Aaron Bohrod and Francis Chapin, ranking among Chicago artists along with the two Albright brothers...