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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representing all parts of Belgium, this Brussels demonstration was against the proposed tax increase on beer and other drinkables which Belgian legislators want to jack sky-high in the name of Temperance. Demanding "reasonable taxes." the grocers & wineshop-keepers charged that Belgian "bootleggers are making fortunes by selling illicit alcohol while honest shopkeepers pay all the taxes...
Protest was crudely but plainly indicated in the cover design, labeled "Saint Andy of Pittsburgh." It showed a cadaverous, ansel-winged Andrew Mellon against a red sky, plucking a harp above a sordid panorama of smoking mill chimneys, squalid shacks, starved workers, silk-hatted bankers slipping money to corrupt politicians. This illustrated W'riter Liggett's leading, lengthy article: "Mr. Mellon's Pittsburgh-Symbol of Corruption." Other features: "News Behind The News," a querulous "debunking" of the fortnight's political and economic news; "Children Are Starving" by one Lillian Symes; political pin-sticking by Robert...
...North Greenland Eskimo would undoubtedly cry "Taku!" in loud surprise were he to see a canary come falling from the sky. No less startled were New Yorkers one day last week to find lying exhausted in their streets some black & white, thick-beaked birds they had never seen before. Not since 1908 had such a bird appeared in the city, and it had arrived on shipboard. Most finders promptly called or hurried to the Bronx Zoo, learned the fallen strangers were little auks, cousins of the least auklet and the extinct great auk. Winging southward from their Arctic loomeries,they...
...committed is one on beer. Publisher Hearst is Democracy's prime agitator for a General Sales Tax but his own party tore that proposal to bits in the last session. Most Democrats want to see the well-to-do pay higher taxes, but are slowly coming to realize that sky-high rates on luxuries and big incomes fail to produce proportionate revenue in hard times and therefore defeat their own end. Thus the General Sales Tax may become the only practical means of balancing the budget...
...week's performance for the jobless. Two hundred of them, organized as the Musicians' Symphony (see col. 1), sat and played on the stage last week where the yawning cistern should have been to hold Jochanaan prisoner, where two dark cypress trees should have stood sinisterly against an Oriental sky. Jeritza and Jochanaan were conventionally clothed but if she had worn veils and he a hair- cloth tunic the performance could not have caused more excitement. The audience stayed long after the finish to cheer and cheer...