Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liberal Club dining room will be open to members on Monday, serving both luncheon and dinner as usual, it was announced by A.D. Langmuir '31, president of the Club. Members are urged to bring guests for meals on the first few days of the term...
...declare "the full foreign value" of merchandise bought abroad. Tourists ordinarily know but one foreign value?the price they paid?and almost invariably set down and pay duty on the retail price. Yet the law defines the full foreign value as "the market value or the price . . . in the usual wholesale quanti- ties." Every businessman knows that the average retail price is about 50% greater than the wholesale price, yet tourists commonly pay duty on the former...
...public's discovery, officials began to seek to relieve the injustice. Commissioner of Customs F. X. A. Eble visited Manhattan, suggested that duties lower than the regular rate be charged tourists; e.g., that if a man brought in $125 worth of foreign goods, he be allowed his usual $100 exemption and then be taxed, say, 25% ($6.25) instead of, say, 90% ($22.50). The objections to this proposal are that $125 worth of goods at wholesale rates are worth $80 or $85 and should not be taxed at all; that such an arbitrary scaling down of duties is probably illegal...
...usual, the latest Mussolini birth occurred at Forli, the rustic farm in Northern Italy where Il Duce always spends his birthday (July 29) and also turns up seasonably to plow, seed, harrow and harvest his grain. Last week he was busy in Rome superintending the national harvest when a punctilious secretary an- nounced: "The child is a daughter, Your Excellency...
...Milwaukee debut. Featured were Tenor Edward Johnson, Soprano Yvonne Gall and Baritone William Phillips in excerpts from Faust. The rest was straight fare?Wagner's Rienzi Overture, Liszt's Les Preludes, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony; also there was George Gershwin's American in Paris whose absurdities caused the usual giggles. Suggested Critic Richand S. Davis of the Milwaukee Journal: "He should now construct A Frenchman in Chicago, which ought to be an even more impish diversion...