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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...INCREASES Withholding at source taxes due from nonresident stockholders $ 2,000,000 A new 25% tax on prize fight tickets of $5 or more 750,000 A new duty on foreign-built yachts 50,000 Total increases $2,800,000 Net tax reduction $222,495,000 Until near the close of the House-Senate conferences, it appeared that Senators Norris, Couzens, et al. might revive in come tax publicity by a provision making tax returns public documents, though not accessible in every collector's office. But the Senate voted for privacy...
...presiding judge, Supreme Court Justice Stephen H. Callaghan, pointed out to the jury that Mrs. Knapp had lied to save herself. After the verdict came in, he deferred sentence until September because physicians said Mrs. Knapp was near a nervous breakdown. Deferred also were several other indictments against Mrs. Knapp on charges similar to the step-daughter graft...
...delight to chuckle over what seem to them the excruciating platitudes of U. S. President Calvin Coolidge. Last week however they saw nothing similarly humorous in the following dialogue, which took place between an Exalted Personage and one Albert Rowlands, laborer, employed by the Office of Public Works. Scene: near Hyde Park corner, on the famed bridle path called Rotten Row. Laborer Rowlands is laying a kerbstone along the edge of the Row. Exalted Personage (pulling up his mount): "What is being done here?" Laborer Rowlands (vexed at the question, and not looking up): "What d'you th-" (Then...
...Near Lexington, Ky., A. G. Bush, veteran railroad engineer, was driving along in his engine, pulling a train. He sneezed suddenly, at which his false teeth fell out of the window...
Died. Henry Seymour Berry, Baron Buckland of Bwlch, 50, Welsh financier and mining potentate; at Buckland, near Bwlch, Breconshire, when the horse he was exercising ran into a telegraph pole. England was waiting to hear of the completion of a merger of Lord Buckland's Welsh industrial and mining interests with those of Rt. Hon. Sir Alfred Moritz Mond...