Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preachment that "the power to tax is the power to destroy," represented the Court's major doctrinal departure for the term. It altered the nation's basic tax structure, opened the way for taxation of income from Government securities. Last fortnight the Court clinched this point by decreeing that judges' salaries, too, are taxable. Further, it laid open to multiple taxation private fortunes reposing in more than one State at death...
...hits in four trips to the plate against Yale and gained a tie with George Polzer of Cornell in the Charles H. Blair bat competition for individual batting supremacy. Each has a mark of .452, but Polzer is actually out in front by a fraction of a point. Lupien is third with a .432 average 16 hits in 37 times...
Columnists, like most people, have families. Unlike most people, columnists often parade their close relatives before their public, to make a point or fill a stick. Constant readers know about the mothers of Hugh Johnson and Hey wood Broun, about Dorothy Thompson's son and Eleanor Roosevelt's husband. Last week Westbrook Pegler had a good story to tell about his father...
Production. Very different in one respect was last week's upturn from that of a year ago. At that time the Federal Reserve Board's index of production fell two points in April, one point in May, turned in June, was on its way up in July (although reported several weeks late its trend can generally be anticipated from weekly figures on various industries). Last week the Board's index reported a six-point drop for April, and May production was guesstimated at 90, June still lower...
...Wyoming will leave from the Boston Navy Yard with R. O. T. C. students on June 17 and will return to that point on July 16. Ports of call will be Havana, Charleston, and new York City. Members of the faculty who wish to apply for the cruise must communicate with Captain Chester H. J. Keppler...