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...then new 15% income tax law and a comparison of tax collectors to gangsters & gunmen, William Randolph Hearst changed his legal residence from California to New York. Lately, Mr. Hearst has been having his prodigiously scrambled possessions audited, consolidated, made liquid by a new set of exchequer chancellors (TIME, March 14, et ante). Last week, for reasons best known to his tax experts, William Randolph Hearst wrote a letter to Assessor W. M. Hollister of San Luis Obispo County, Calif. announcing that as of January 1 he had returned his legal residence to his San Simeon estate. Though he issued...
Ahead the Treasury did not look just yet. The net effect of the 75th Congress' whopping appropriations and authorizations will not be known until it is seen: 1) how much more money will have to be voted for Relief after next March; 2) how far Government revenues fall in fiscal 1939 due to Depression II. (The Treasury's first guess, last week, was a decline of some 750 millions.) Last week President Roosevelt ordered the Treasury to undertake a tax study for the edification of the 76th Congress. In the next twelve-month the Treasury's deficit...
...Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans have talked for years of holding a joint reunion. They might have done so but for oldsters who were Billy-be-damned if they would march under 1) The Stars & Stripes, or 2) The Stars & Bars. When Blues and Grays tried it 25 years ago, at the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, cussing and fisticuffing discouraged subsequent attempts. This year, the U. S. Government stepped in with a healing offer of free transportation. So last week G. A. R. and U. C. V. tried again at Gettysburg. This...
Turkish troops were scheduled this week to march peacefully over the southern border of Turkey into the 10,000-square-mile Sanjak (province) of Alexandretta, an autonomous district of French-mandated, soon-to-be-independent Syria. Sent back to Geneva on the demand of Turkey, at the request of France, was the League of Nations Commission which had been invited to supervise the election of a legislature which, if held, would have amounted to a plebiscite for Turkish or Syrian rule...
...Awarded its highest honor (life membership in the N. E. A.) to 19-year-old Virginia Sappington, a $70-a-month teacher in Piety Hill School, near Chetopa, Kans., who last March herded 21 children into a ditch and saved their lives before a tornado made splinters of the school building...