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Blame & Congress. Widespread was the financial opinion last week that the bad state of U. S. Business was in no small part due to Congress and its vagaries on the Budget & Taxation. Washington tipster services hinted darkly of a "dictatorship." Bankers and industrialists complained bitterly of "uncertainties" at the Capitol. They were quite positive that if Congress passed an equitable tax law, approximately balanced the Budget and adjourned by June 10, their immediate troubles would be over...
...astonishment and indignation. He would personally protest to Secretary Mellon. Tears began to course down his wife's cheeks as the examination dragged on. At the end of two and a half hours the customs men found nothing not listed on the declarations. It was understood that a tipster in Europe, greedy for the Federal reward of 25% of any fine collected, had set the agents on the Mackay's trail on the chance that some undeclared object might be found...
Married. Prince Monolulu of Africa, turf tipster; and a Miss Nellie Amelia Adkind, white woman; in London. Prince Monolulu wore his royal regalia, including hat embellished with three two-foot ostrich plumes, embroidered sash, short jacket on which were traced five symbolic horseshoes...
Further complications arose over a gang attack upon Reporter Leland H. Reese of the Daily News. This occurred immediately after Reporter Brundidge had revealed that the murdered Julius Rosenheim, "squawker, fixer and shakedown artist," had been Reese's tipster. Reese admitted the alliance, but vehemently denied knowing that Rosenheim used threats of exposure in the News as a club with which to collect underworld money...
More far reaching than those two cases was evidence that Tipster Lingle had received $85,000 in payments or loans from racketeers and public officials, the latter including Chicago's Corporation Counsel Samuel A. Ettelson, Alderman Berthold A. Cronson, City Civil Service Commissioner Major Carlos Ames...