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DEATH AND TAXES - David Dodge -Macmillan ($2). A huge tax refund on a dead beer-baron's estate motivates the murder of an income-tax expert. The expert's pardner, who likes liquor, ladies and a good scrap, helps California police clean up a tricky case. Hard-hitting and well-knit - the "find" of the month...
...Crow seat, got arrested, said "Mr. Lewis will fix you for this." >> Representative Clare Hoffman (R., Mich.) asked that "applause" (to his speech) be stricken from the Congressional Record "because there was none." Speaker Sam Rayburn suggested making such omissions permanent and universal. >> Eleanor Roosevelt offered to refund her half of a $1,000 fee (shared by her agent) for speaking at a Burlington, Vt. hospital benefit because the fee wiped out the benefit, but the sponsors declined. >> Franklin D. Roosevelt got a sore throat, cancelled plans to go to the Harvard Commencement this week...
Accompanied by one of his two svelte secretaries, who take down gags he thinks up at night, d.t.-totaling W. C. Fields ambled into Los Angeles court, tried to get a $20,000 refund on his 1937 Federal income tax. He found that the Government wanted $20,000 more. Badgered by revenuers about the elastic rubric he had created for deductible expenses, he had a time explaining a $20 item for milk. Puffed globular Taxpayer Fields: "I do not drink the liquid myself. I believe the writers. . . used it as a kind of a lubricant. . . . All I know about milk...
...drafted before registering on February 10 will have their registration fees returned. Any man drafted while enrolled in the School will receive a pro rata refund on tuition and other prepaid university charges...
...displays what B. C. suspects are the largest and smallest checks ever written in a business transaction: $208,581,250 to George Baker's First National Bank for part of the famous James Hill railroad financing; 1? to J. P.'s son Junius for a Federal tax refund...