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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flight tax was taken over by Adolf Hitler in 1933 and made a good thing when Jews had to flee. In the two years before Hitler the tax brought in but 2,876,000 marks. With the start of the Nazi anti-Jewish drive and the application of the Nürnberg laws, however, receipts multiplied until in fiscal 1937-38 they reached a total of 81,000,000 marks. Two years ago the yield was not large enough to please. Prospective refugees who fall in the taxable categories were then required to give security to tax authorities to insure...
Politely omitted from the Druggist's copy are the names of its two principal targets-lean, freckled, didactic Frederick John Schlink, of Washington, N. J., and dark, intense Arthur Kallet of Manhattan. Earnest consumers know that Engineers Schlink and Kallet began a beautiful friendship in 1928 when both were working for American Standards Association; made it pay in 1933 by co-authoring a best-selling expose of advertising fakes and frauds (100,000,000 Guinea Pigs); ended it in bitterness in 1935 when Kallet backed a strike of technicians and office workers at Schlink's Consumers' Research...
...education department's chairman is Julius Hochman, a union vice president and general manager of the N. Y. Dressmakers' Joint Board. Stocky Julius Hochman, shaggy browed and square faced, looks like C. I. O. Leader John L. Lewis, and is himself a product of workers' education. Born in Russia 45 years ago, he went to work at eleven for his father, a tailor. He arrived in Manhattan's garment district at 14, promptly enrolled in night school, later was graduated from Brookwood Labor College. Today he is a lover of painting and chamber music. He helped...
...Deal, N. J., the 38-room summer home of 77-year-old William Crapo Durant ("Godfather of the Motor Car Industry," "Gunga Din of Wall St.") was put up for auction with its furnishings. A Kermanshah rug appraised at $6,000 went for $750, a $6,500 tapestry for $275, the $500,000 house itself...
Married. Melvin Horace Purvis Jr., 35, onetime G-Man who directed the capture of Bandit John Dillinger, now practices law in San Francisco; and Mrs. Rosanne Willcox Taylor, 30; in Charlotte, N...