Word: taxes
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Unlike Nevada's mines, which have paid a "bullion tax" on net proceeds since 1864, gambling has never been taxed (except for a license). But this spring legislators wrote a bill calling for a 10% income tax on gambling's gross profits. The proposal stirred up as much argument as a counterfeit bill at a faro table...
Even when the tax was reduced to 1%, the uproar went on. Many a businessman joined, fearing the law might prove a wedge for special taxes on other businesses. But the legislature passed the bill. Nevada's Governor E. P. Carville hemmed, hawed, called for public hearing, finally decided not to touch the red hot document. Last week, after the lapse of the period allowed for veto, it became law without his signature...
Last week, in a significant decision, the Supreme Court agreed to take up the South's case against the railroads. Spokesman for the South is Georgia's New Dealing Governor Ellis Arnall. Peppery, young (38) Governor Arnall has already killed the poll-tax law in Georgia, rewritten the State's Constitution, cut the debt way down. Last June he set out after the biggest game of all. In a suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and 19 other carriers Governor Arnall charged that the railroads and some 60 other rate-makers have violated antitrust laws, discriminated against...
Full Houses. In Stockholm, Sweden, a mother who had just given birth to her fifth child talked with two wardmates who had each had twins, discovered that all five children had the same father. In a Chattanooga tax office, a woman claimed five dependent children, "Two by my first husband, two by my second, and one by myself...
...Nationalist Socialist tide rose, and ill-timed tax measures of the ministry were used by the opposition to secure unfavorable mob opinions. Finally, in May, 1932, Hitler grew so strong that Professor Bruening was forced to resign as Chancellor and to devote himself to teaching...