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...build your sewers in Omaha? Why curse me and torture me with your machines and your sewers? I say to you, this damned rat-a-tat-tat, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, must stop! And I am going to stop...
Under Secretary Hanes's search for revenue is leading him to consider taxing State and local salaries and securities (now tax-exempt). Here he will collide with a host of State and municipal officials, who are unwilling to play Franklin Roosevelt's proposed game of tit-for-tat wherein States would levy income taxes against the salaries of Federal employes. John Hanes's understanding of the scarcity and paucity of new tax avenues, and of the woes of taxpayers-for whom he often personally holds court-makes him a darling of the Garner-Harrison economy bloc...
Valdemaras, known as the "Firebrand of the Baltic," was Lithuania's Premier and dictator from 1926 to 1929, when he was ousted by Smetona. In 1934 he was sentenced to twelve years' hard labor for an unsuccessful coup d'état, was later allowed to go to France where he has been living as an exile. Known as a Germanophile and Fascist, hardheaded, stiff-necked Augustine Valdemaras is also bitterly anti-Polish. Back in the late twenties he campaigned so vigorously for the return of Vilna* to Lithuania that Poland's late gruff old Marshal Pilsudski...
...school of biff-plop-ratatat-tat cartooning was coming up fast. Today even spry old Foxy would be hard put to it to dodge the machine gun slugs and interplanetary rockets that whiz through the "comic" strips of the Thirties...
...story of a Fascist coup d'état which miscarried because it was met with a counterattack as savage as the charge of the Cadillacs driven by the Barcelona volunteers; of militiamen using as weapons anything that came to hand-old automobiles, old airplanes, revolvers, dynamite, makeshift armored trains. Largely written in Spain between July and November 1936, it was turned out, diary-fashion, while Malraux was leading the Loyalist air force. After flights over Franco's ter ritory, he shut himself up in Madrid's Hotel Florida, wrote in five or six-hour spurts, making...