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...wall refuses to tumble into the cellar. Outside, on Kosciusko Square, dozens of spectators gape at the crumbling magnificence that is about to be. John sees the trouble is that the cable is pulling at the side of a short but fat pillar which used to support the basketball floor...
...alright, boys!" he bellows at his men, motioning them to stand back. Then the truck strains again at the cable and the fat pillar is abruptly flipped on its side. Lusty cheers from the boys. Radiant pride on John's earthly face. "Okay, now we git do wall," he grits...
Last week Mrs. Vanderlip, widow of the Manhattan banker and a pillar of the Manhattan Swedenborgian church, presided at the Manhattan Swedenborg banquet to which President Roosevelt sent a praiseful telegram. In Boston, Swedenborgians dined in their Church of the New7 Jerusalem on Beacon Hill. In Philadelphia, Episcopalian Joseph Fort Newton spoke at a Swedenborg gathering in the University Club, while in nearby suburban Bryn Athyn, Swedenborgians of the schismatic General Church of the New Jerusalem held a dinner in the assembly hall of their slowly-building cathedral. These Swedenborgians have a bishop-George de Charms-whereas the main body...
...almost wholly supported by customs receipts and excises on liquor and tobacco. Income taxes were unconstitutional, business in general was virtually untaxed. But 31 pregnant words were added to the Constitution in 1913* and, because of the exigencies of War, the new income tax, personal and corporate, became the pillar of the Treasury. War-time taxation w?as regarded as temporary and when rates settled down at relatively high levels in the 19203, their sting was dulled by easy money. In Depression there was little income to tax. But when the bill for Recovery was finally presented, the Tax Collector...
...Government personnel was moved or fled up the Yangtze River. The other four-fifths were given enough money to enable them to reach their homes in the provinces, urged to clear out of Nanking amid pathetic scenes. One high Chinese official, educated in the U. S. and a pillar of Chiang's regime, wept constantly as he supervised the packing of his ministry's more vital papers, the others being shoveled into enormous bonfires to prevent their falling into Japanese hands...