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...title role, that of the dog, is being carried by Richard Seymour '40. John Barnard '39 has the male lead, playing opposite Alice Plympton of the Junior League. L. John Profit, special student, plays a prominent part...
...pound (25%). A Briton with a wife and child who earns $5,000 a year would pay, after benefiting from various exemptions, $585 to the Exchequer, more than seven times as much as a U. S. citizen in the same position pays to Washington. 2) An excess profits tax, hated by Tories the world over and first levied in Britain in 1915 by the Asquith Government and continued until 1921 by David Lloyd George to hit war-profiteers, will be reintroduced under the euphemistic head of "the national defense contributions." This will be raised "during Britain's rearming years...
...these really the people who made the revolution? No; they are the people who profit by it. ... Remember that this moulding of the spirit begins in earliest infancy. . . . What is important here is to persuade people that they are as well off as they can be until a better time comes; to persuade them that elsewhere people are worse off. The only way of achieving this is carefully to prevent any communication with the outside world...
...illness, strike, riot, civil commotion or act of God, not even the profit motive was responsible for the long delay in Senator Bill Smathers' taking office. During the interval he was drawing $500 a year as a State Senator in New Jersey instead of $10,000 as a U. S. Senator. He had stayed in New Jersey in a vain attempt to help Democratic Boss Hague of Jersey City gain control of the State Senate where the Republicans had a majority of one, with one seat in dispute...
Alice Plimpton will play the feminine lead, as Iris Crew, the heroine, while L. J. Profit, veteran of dramatic productions on stages from Australia to Bermuda, will be the Vicar, the principal masculine role. Oliver T. Simpkins '40, and Peggy Eastell are the King and Queen, and Robert Solo '39 will play the General. Alfonse Ossorio '38, designer of the Hasty Pudding Show, John Barnard '39, Richard H. Seymer '39 as "The Dog", Stephen Greene '37, last president of the Club, David F. Parry '38, and J. David Lightbody '40, president of the Freshman Class, are other outstanding members...