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Five other States have resorted to their own form of "money" to make sales tax payments of less than 1?, despite the Treasury's opinion that such action infringes the Federal Government's sole power under the Constitution to coin money. The States' retort is that what they are issuing is not "legal tender" and therefore worthless for anything but their sales tax. Illinois has issued round aluminum tokens about the size of a dime, is now issuing larger square tokens that are less apt to be misused in telephones, slot machines and other coin devices...
Since Socrates, after considerable palaver, raised the poison cup of hemlock and escaped the indignity of public execution, modern nations have decided that a man under sentence of death who kills himself is cheating the law. Sole exception is the dignified little Baltic State of Estonia. Until a thwarted Nazi putsch so alarmed President Konstantin Pats last year that he declared a state of martial law, Estonia had ignored the death penalty entirely. Confronted with the new problem of how to execute Estonians, President Pats devised a system of taking them into a forest near Tallinn and shooting them, always...
Nowhere amid this welter of revenue-raising did there appear in writing the promise which let the tax bill slip so easily through the Senate. That promise was an Administration bargain with Senate Bonuseers. Explaining that his sole purpose was to put Majority Leader Robinson on record, Oklahoma's Thomas last week moved to amend the tax bill with what was virtually the greenback Bonus bill. Senator Robinson at once gave his solemn word that the Bonus would get prompt consideration in a separate bill early next session. With that promise in their pockets. Bonuseers could count...
TIME errs. The Duke of Gloucester is not George V's sole remaining bachelor son unless newsworthy TIME is keeping the marriage of the Prince of Wales, the world's No. 1 bachelor, a deep dark secret [TIME, Aug. 12]. The marriage of Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David would probably be more newsworthy and of greater international significance than the prayerful hope that the Duke of Gloucester and Juliana may some day see their way clear to the altar. Shall I renew my subscription next month...
...year ago, wrestling rumors said that a merger between the two groups was imminent. Last week's bout, however acrimoniously contested, was essentially an indication that the merger had been amicably completed and that Promoter Jack Curley, with simple O'Mahoney as his proxy, had finally become sole proprietor of the Heavyweight Wrestling Championship of the World...