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...business. By a 5-to-4 majority-Justices Brandeis, Stone, Cardozo, Black strenuously dis-senting-it held that a $10,000 gift made to an employe for "valuable and loyal service" in 1931 was not taxable as income. Among eleven other decisions handed down, the most important per se was a preliminary victory for the National Labor Relations Board in its dispute with Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines Inc. The Court announced that it would review the case, which may or may not turn out to have a profound effect on the legal standing of company unions...
Died. Genaro Estrada, 50, Mexican statesman and diplomat; of a heart attack; in Mexico City. Onetime head of the Mexican Foreign Office, Mexican Minister to Turkey, Ambassador to Spain, head of the Mexican delegation to the League of Nations, Señior Estrada in 1931 promulgated the Estrada Doctrine ("Doctrina Mexicana"). In direct opposition to the Monroe Doctrine, which had been incorporated into the League Covenant, the Estrada Doctrine proclaimed every Latin-American nation's exclusive right to be its own big brother...
Meanwhile if you'll sort of appint me as vice president of the Former Apple Butter Stirrers' Society Fer the Purpose of Promulgatin, Promotin and Perpetuatin Memories of Apple Butter Stirrin Days I'll se what we kin do in Green Valley to help on the Perpetuatin. I got another nephew up at Cherry Hill mebbe you never heerd of, names Henry O'Hope. I rember one time when Henry was a little kodger his ma and him come over to make us a visit. His Aunt Sarah an me was stirrin Apple Butter out back...
...Chairman Roosevelt Mr. Nystrom, an authority on business trends, lashed out at irresponsibility of labor unions in a way which just as visibly embarrassed the President's son as it delighted the audience. Said he: ". . . There is resistance [on the part of employers], not to collective bargaining per se, but to what lies behind it. Unfortunately, to many employers, it looks as if any invitation, either of labor to management or of management to labor, to sup at a common table is likely to result noc only in the disappearance of the food but also of the dishes...
Some little bands should be seen but not heard. At the top of this category perch Perch Leroy ("Stuff") Smith, a colored show-off who composed I'se A-muggin', a song whose lyrics consist of counting and grunting; and the clowning Riley-Farley Band which caused a minor musical epidemic in 1936 with The Music Goes Round & Around. Well on their way toward the same sort of eminence last week were six droll musicians of St. Paul, Minn., who play under the name of the Schnickelfritz Band and whose chief assets are two trunkfuls of funny hats...