Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Customs receipts dropped $36,000,000. Internal revenues dropped $24,000,000. Secretary Mellon explained that the falling off in revenues was due to "a sharp diminution" in receipts from the Federal estate (inheritance) tax and to the tax-cutting Revenue Act of 1928. He also said: "In view of the amount of discussion that has taken place as to the accuracy of the Treasury's estimate of income taxes, is is worthy of note that with collections aggregating over two billion dollars they exceeded estimates by the narrow margin of nine million dollars, or error...
Said the hard-boiled Chicago Tribune: "The burghers will be inclined to, rejoice. . . . That is the short view. The man who killed O'Banion was tougher and more resourceful than O'Banion; the man who killed Hymie Weiss was tougher than his victim; and the man who killed Murphy was a harder egg than Murphy. As one gangster is killed off he is succeeded by an-other who is less restrained by the standards of civilized society. The progression is from fists to bombs, to pistols, or to machine guns." The Murphy murder quickly reverberated in Brooklyn...
...German View. The official view of the German Republic, based on the findings of a German Commission of Inquiry, is that the combustion of the Library of Louvain arose from accidental causes, in the absence of any adequate fire fighting equipment, and without incendiary act by any German whomsoever. Nonetheless beaten Germany has made the reparation specified in the Treaty of Versailles; and Monsignor Ladeuze does not hold that this reparation should now be repatriated to Germany...
...occupants, thus making the scene more noisy and pleasant. A flexible system of points for good dancing and demerits for loafing should be instituted; the team which was leading the marathon on points would have the flag of its nation higher on a tall flag pole in view of all spectators. This would lead to excitement and incipient rioting at all times. The couples should be made to execute a valse for one hour, a fox trot for the next, a polka...
Three groups, including 10,000 railroaders, met at Atlantic City for a searching probe into revenues, costs, competition. They listened to contradictory advices. How should the railroads view the competition of motor trucks and busses? With Alarm, declared M. B. Lambert, transportation salesmanager for the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., pointing to decreased equipment orders, decreased business for local, branch line, short-haul services. With Satisfaction, retorted Interstate Commerce Commissioner Frank McManamy, insisting that short-haul freight, short-distance passenger service, brings little or no profit to railroads. With Determination, compromised R. H. Ashton, president of the American Railway Association...