Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Creator of such familiar personalities as The Toonerville Skipper, The Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang, Aunt Eppie Hogg, The Powerful Katrinka, and Mickey (Himself) McGuire is a mild-mannered little newspaper cartoonist named Fontaine Fox. Last week the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals handed down a decision on a less familiar but equally profitable creation of Cartoonist Fox known as Reynard Corp...
...apparent that if the U. S. press and the U. S. Congress had forgotten him, there were plenty of radio listeners who had not. Roared the frantic radio priest against the Reorganization Bill: "It will mean that it's none of the people's business how their tax moneys are used. . . . [It] sets up a financial dictatorship in the person of the President. . . . The immediacy of the danger insists that before tomorrow noon your telegram is in the hands of your Senator to stop the Reorganization Bill as Washington stopped George...
...session with the Princeton Country Day School, and that everything seemed in good shape for the scrum in Briggs' Cage on Saturday. The H.A.A. announced that the grapplers would dispense with the usual formalities and begin the three-hour halves promptly at eight. It was warned that the entertainment tax would be higher than usual...
...political curtain of Texas, there was published anonymously a novel called "Philip Dru, Administrator." Later House admitted that it came from his pen, but even today that political novel, the philosophy of which was drawn from the liberal Mazzani and which advocated--among other things--a graduated income tax, universal suffrage, and a flexible currency, is hardly known as the work of the idealistic Colonel House...
...produced spectacular feats of economic practice. But it has not, except for the Single Tax ideas of Henry George, produced any original economic theory. The Promises Men Live By, a 492-page volume addressed to laymen, is offered as "a new approach." Its author, shrewd, 51-year-old Harry Scherman, is president and owner of the Book-of-the-Month Club, onetime successful adman and originator of the Little Leather Library, which in two years (1923-25) sold 40,000,000 copies through such outlets as Woolworth's and the Whitman Candy...