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Christmas is house-cleaning time for booksellers. The publishers remit their flood of new titles while shelves are cleared, ledgers audited for the new year. Readers can now reconsider the past year's output, check what they have read, what they have missed, what they might give as presents. Following is a list designed to be helpful...
...note not at all in accord with the conclusions of the committee as a whole. Two of them advocate absolute repeal, and the four others would have the Amendment revised to lodge with Congress the power to (1) continue the present system of national prohibition, or (2) to remit the matter in whole or in part to the States, or (3) "to adopt any system of effective control." The only consistent members of the commission appear to be the wet Mr. Lemann, who refuses to sign, and Chairman Wickersham, who is a thorough-going dry and so writes...
...mechanism of the projected tax shift will be for the Treasury to remit three quarters of the "rates" (taxes) now levied locally upon "productive industry employing manual labor." In the case of "actively producing farmlands" the Treasury will remit the whole of the local taxes, "They will be wiped clean off the slate!" exulted Mr. Churchill. Then he stated soberly that the "wiping" would cost the Treasury ?29,000,000 per year...
...work for me and he has a fine of $1000 hanging over him and can't pay it.' Ned McLean said: 'Albert, I'll give $500 and you give $500 and we will pay his fine.' The President spoke up: 'Don't let that worry you: I'll remit the fine,' and the game went...
...Fascism. By way of bugabooing any lingeringly reluctant Senator into voting for the measure, General Zupelli related an extremely tall yarn. Said he: "Freemasonry strikes at the root of military discipline. . . . There was a case during the Tripolitan war in which the Commander in Chief was obliged to remit the punishment of a lieutenant because he was bidden to do so by his aide who, though his inferior in military rank, was his superior in Masonic rank...