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...five years. Fining the sons and son-in-law $1,000 each, Judge O'Connor added: "These young men did just what I should expect. . . . They did just what their father and father-in-law told them to do." A swarm of gulled depositors and investors, expecting a stiffer sentence, muttered sullenly: "It's a shame, it's a shame.'' They had often booed and heckled Banker Bain while he was giving testimony. Once he burst into tears...
...conservatory till all hours. Tongues wagged her market-value down & down. The bloom off, nobody came near but drones. Monica peered, preened and pined to no avail. Her father disappointedly died, her old-maid friends grew more virginal every year, her mother kept a stiff lip stiffer. Things looked pretty dismal for Monica when the biggest drone of all finally settled on her. And the dreadful point of the story is that by that time Monica was really glad to have...
...better basketball than has been played at any time this season, the University quintet went down to defeat at the hands of a powerful Columbia five on Monday, December 21, by a score of 31 to 22, Columbia, intercollegiate champions last year and previously unbeaten this season, met much stiffer opposition than it has expected in the Crimson aggregation, and had to muster up all its strength to come out on the long end of the score...
...reduced exemptions (now $1,500 for single persons. $3,500 for married folk) and a general jumping of surtax rates. Senator Smoot favored an increase in the maximum surtax from 20% to 40%. "Progressive" Senators, probably holding the balance of power, clamored for stiffer surtax rates on incomes above $20,000 per year, opposed any move against small taxpayers. Also discussed were new levies on automobiles, radios, amusement admissions, estates, gifts. Only two items seemed sure of escaping tax upping: 1) corporations, already tottering under their 12% burden; 2) tobacco, which already pays an ad valorem rate...
Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., whose product mixes well with stiffer stuff, echoed Coca-Cola's story. Starting with 1927. the year Ontario went from Dry to Wet, the company's U. S. and Canadian per capita sales have compared as follows...