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California Store Tax, Among 23 questions submitted to California's voters, the one that made the biggest stir was No. 22, to settle whether a law passed by the Legislature in 1935 should go into effect. Called modestly a retail store license, it provided a $1 tax on the first store in a chain, $2 on the second, $4 on the third and so on up to $500 on the tenth and each subsequent store. Gasoline stations and beauty parlors were exempted, but other chain stores, led by Safeway with 1,300 stores, got the help of Adman...
...industrial towns of Michigan and Ohio. At more than one place there were boos-chiefly from small boys-although the volume of cheers everywhere drowned them out. A few hecklers he handled deftly, but now & then, even in rural regions where he met the warmest welcome, he failed to stir a crowd to the enthusiasm it was ready to give. Then he would abandon his troublesome notes and drop in a remark which always got response: "I guess you folks are down here to look me over. That goes both ways. I'm glad to look you over...
...Commissioner of War," in a two-way attempt to exercise political control over the Red Militia. As the White offensive rolled nearer & nearer to the capital, Madrid became a city of gloom and darkness. Gas for cooking and heating had been cut off. Places of entertainment closed early. To stir up the inhabitants' flagging spirits notices were pinned up in the streets, "Men of Madrid ! Will you allow your women to be raped by Moors !" The women themselves were similarly exhorted by Communist Deputy Doña Dolores ("The Passion Flower") Ibarruri, who pleaded: "Women of Madrid...
...most hotly contested political battle of our times today's Crimson poll should stir up more interest than the ordinary straw vote. The activites of Harvard students in the campaign of recent weeks the Landon-Knox Club, the First Voters League, the Roosevelt organizations, all show a ferment of undergraduate opinion unusual in a university accustomed to taking its politics in the coolest manner...
...George S. Kaufman, in collaboration this time with Miss Katharine Dayton, has proved himself something of a doctrinaire in "First Lady". The requirement, of course, was that the doctrine be silly enough to stir up amusement, if not enthusiasm, in American audiences. American audiences haven't pledged themselves, and don't intend to pledge themselves, to anything politically serious. So Mr. Kaufman declares over the interval of two jolly hours that wives are the only things that make the Washington merry-go-round go 'round. Not content with having put love in the White House along with a Mr. Wintergreen...