Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gang of railroad workers captured the "phantom" in Omaha's outskirts, walking the ties. He was a 45-year-old maniac named Frank Carter. He boasted about his marksmanship, displayed his .22 calibre automatic with silencer attachment. He had been paroled from the State prison after conviction for killing a neighbor's cows. He still wanted to "Kill, Kill, Kill," he said. Nebraska hanged...
...squads. Twenty dusky suspects were taken into custody, but none had a hatchet. Mrs. Stribling thought she recognized her attacker in Jake Bird, a 24-year-old ex-convict, though Bird was black and Mrs. Stribling had described the hatcheteer as copper-colored. Bird was hustled to the State penitentiary for safekeeping...
Taxation. The Governors compared their states' pocketbooks and methods of filling them. Louisiana's Long instructed his guests as to the virtues and efficacy of the severance tax-a sort of subterranean tax imposed to compensate for the removal of a state's irreplaceable natural resources (oil, illuminating...
Minnesota's Christianson arose to complain about the U. S. Supreme Court's ruling that national banks are federal agencies and therefore exempt from cer tain state taxes. His point was that na tional banks are operated for the benefit of stockholders and should therefore be taxed the same as state banks...
...Pollak Foundation for Economic Research, and Waddell Catchings, Manhattan manufacturer-financier (shoes, collars, cans, rubber, motors, fruit, cereals, dairy produce, drugs, magazines, cinema), collaborated lately on a book* in which they suggested that all U. S. markets would be steadied if the governmental agencies of the U. S.-federal, state, municipal-would map out and authorize large programs of public work which will be needed eventually though not immediately. Let these programs then be held in abeyance, said the collaborators, until such time as labor and fiscal indices show or predict a slump, local or national. Then let the contracts...