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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidential order, Director Walker's duties would be: "Consolidating, coordinating and making more efficient and productive the emergency activities of the Government." He was to start by "conveying to the general public all factual information with reference to the various Governmental agencies." On a nation-wide scale his Council's representatives were to steer befuddled citizens through the fog of new Washington agencies to the particular bureau that could supply the relief needed. As a starter $10,000-per-year-man Walker hired for his headquarters assistant Eugene Sheldon Leggett, redheaded young Washington correspondent for the Detroit Free...
...Instead of the present graduated normal tax of 4% up to $4,000 and 8% thereafter, one flat 4% normal tax. To compensate for this reduction surtaxes would be upped approximately 4% throughout the scale. Result: to increase by 4% the tax on income from dividends. Persons with net incomes up to $6,000 would pay exactly the same tax as under the present law. Personal exemptions, which now can be deducted only in figuring normal taxes, would also be applied to surtaxes. Thus on incomes of over $6,000 married men would pay slightly less, single men slightly more...
...most of the Liberal M. P.'s have now joined His Majesty's loyal opposition force upon the Cabinet a change in policy if it is not idly to await its early death. That this policy may well take the form of cartellization of British industry on the grand scale is indicated by the remark made in the Commons by Major Elliot, Minister of Agriculture: "We (the National Government) shall be forced to come to the House of Commons to ask for sanction for wide-sweeping changes in the economic structure of this country." This was followed by similar remarks...
...luck with guns or dynamite. A dead shark sinks at once. In his Hawaiian days Sharkman Young used to rip open a dead horse, trail it behind his boat, harpoon the sharks as they swarmed to tear at the flesh. When he went into shark-hunting on a commercial scale, Sharkman Young strung 600-ft. nets along the ocean floor. A shark never turns back. Stopped by a net, it rolls over & over until it is hopelessly entangled. After chemists learned some 15 years ago how to remove the prickly, flint-like denticle from a shark's tough hide...
...serfdom unless he can somehow get himself into the white-collar class. He is almost there when the War swallows him. Vomited out after the armistice as an unemployed veteran, complete with scars and medals, he starves, emigrates to Sweden, goes home to more starvation. Down the long scale of disintegration he slips rung by rung. Three newspaper clippings end the book: one from Rochester. Minn, announcing the dollar-valuation of a human body's chemicals; one from Capetown, telling of a holocaust of storks killed in a freak hailstorm; one from Vienna, a sympathetic epitaph on Karl...