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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lobby's backyard, after a six-month layoff, discovery of the Committee's interim activities roused a mighty howl throughout the land, which showed that many & many a citizen still regarded his privacy as something more than a "fiction." Backed up by court action, it promised to result in a showdown on the headline-making power of Congress to probe the affairs of private citizens at will...
...sometimes peppery. Once when a bootlegger thanked him for imposing a fine of only $50, Judge Ritter roared: "Don't thank me! To thank a court or a jury for doing its duty is an insult. Your fine is raised to $75." He was first investigated as the result of a resolution introduced in the House by Representative J. Mark Wilcox of Florida in 1933. Last week Congressman Wilcox was the only member of the Florida delegation to vote against the Ritter impeachment. Said he: "If [Ritter] were charged with being a consummate fool, the House would be justified...
...easy example: a corporation clears $1,000,000 a year. Some $160,000 now goes to the Federal Government in corporation taxes. If $500,000 is declared in dividends $340,000 remains for surplus. Under an undivided profits tax, the corporation might declare the same dividends with the result that it would have to pay 35% on the remaining $500,000. Thus the Government would get $175,000 in taxes and the corporation could still add $325,000 to surplus. Stockholders, on their own account, would have to pay the 4% normal tax on their dividends-$20,000 in taxes...
...form of a crisp White Paper of 19 closely-printed pages the House of Commons received last week a fateful invitation from the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin. In a general way the Prime Minister invited a confidence vote of which the result might be to spend $1,500,000,000 as rapidly as possible for further Armament, or to spend immensely more, should His Majesty's Government think best. The White Paper was a bid to be accorded virtual carte blanche-billions for Armament, and no questions asked. In the words of the paper: "Any attempt to estimate...
...fall, a blow, a scare, a rage, a chill, writes Dr. Taussig, may cause spontaneous abortion. Spontaneous abortions may also result from defective ova, weakness of the placenta, nervous wombs, malformed pelvis, dietary deficiencies, endocrine disturbances. Half the women who suffer from typhoid fever, cholera, scarlet fever, smallpox, erysipelas, sleeping sickness and malaria during pregnancy involuntarily abort. Pneumonia is especially feticidal...