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Taxation, The Court made three significant loopholes in its ancient doctrine that the Government cannot tax the '"instrumentalities" of a sovereign State. The Justices ruled that the Federal Government could collect taxes on: 1) the profits of operators leasing oil lands from the State of California, 2) the salaries of employes of the Port of New York Authority, 3) Football-receipts at the University of Georgia and the Georgia School of Technology...
...Sovereign Lord the King!" cried an equally black police officer, promptly reading the Riot Act to the cane-field workers, "chargeth and commandeth all persons being assembled immediately to disperse themselves and peaceably to depart to their habitations or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the Act made in the first year of King George [I] for preventing tumultuous and riotous assembles. God save the King...
Secretary of State Cordell Hull's official statement emphasized that the Mexican Government exercised in seizing these properties one of the rights of any sovereign state-the right of expropriation. In a printed handout, Ambassador Daniels said he had been summoned by President Cárdenas, whom he found surrounded by resplendent military aides and members of his Cabinet. The Mexican President did not confer with Josephus Daniels but read off a statement which the Ambassador said he thought constituted a diplomatic note. It was flashed to President Roosevelt at Warm Springs. "I am gratified to have thus formally...
...ironical covers! A full week after Schuschnigg's fall, and the end ot Austria as a sovereign independent State, along comes TIME with Schuschnigg, Chancellor of Austria," beaming all over your cover as though he were almost the man of the hour...
...postponing" the plebiscite. This Chancellor Schuschnigg and Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas, who had just come from the pleasanter business of entertaining junketing Herbert Hoover, felt obliged to grant. Then again CRUNCH!-the Dictator sent by airplane his ultimatum that the last Chancellor of Austria (that is, of independent and sovereign Austria) must resign. This message was carried by Herr Josef Bürckel, Nazi leader in the Saar...