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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bureau of Internal Revenue last week finished counting the dollars it took in during fiscal 1939. They totaled $5,181,665,738, a drop of $477,099,576 from 1938. Off most sharply were individual income tax payments, which fell $257,386,851. Pay roll taxes were off only...
...first acts of revolt naturally took place among the lowest of the populace. ... The FRENCH GUARDS UNANIMOUSLY joined the Citizens, and a set of more noble, orderly, and determined men I never saw. . . . Placards were publicly stuck up by well known persons, setting a price on the HEADS of the QUEEN, the COMTE D'ARTOIS, the POLIGNACS, and others. The guard, horse and foot, of Paris (the horse are a fine body), all joined us in the evening.... All the houses put out lights to prevent surprize, and the Citizens not on duty slept as tranquilly...
Seven years ago 37-year-old Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi was the most dashing figure on the diplomatic stage and the fair-haired boy of Fascism as well. Then, in a surprise Cabinet shakeup, Dictator Benito Mussolini took away spade-bearded Dino Grandi's portfolio and made himself Foreign Minister. Some thought that Il Duce was miffed at the way Signer Grandi had conducted Italy's side of the negotiations at the Reparations Conference at Lausanne, but a more widely accepted theory was that he had violated Mussolini Commandment...
...shortly before the late great Booker T. Washington organized the National Negro Business League, there were two Negro banks. When N. N. B. A. was formed in 1926, eleven years after Booker Washington's death, there were 25. Depression I took its toll of Negro banks as of white banks. Today there are twelve active Negro banks and trust companies (with total capital of $1,000,000, assets of $10,000,000) besides 18 savings, loan, and real estate banks...
...peacock of an heir, 17-year-old General Dilip Rai, came to special lessons redolent with perfume. Soon the nuns found their work too absorbing. Sister Phillippa's request for transfer, because she had put her garden before her religious life, gave the first warning. But it took the twin tragedy of death in convent and village before Sister Clodagh admitted her mistake, asked for recall...