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Year later Wiley Post took a job as aerial chauffeur for Oilman Florence C. Hall who had bought a Lockheed Vega monoplane, called it Winnie Mae after his daughter. When one-eyed Pilot Post had piled up 700 hours air time, the Department of Commerce gave him a physical waiver and a license. In 1930 Oilman Hall bought a new Lockheed Vega also called Winnie Mae. In that ship Post quickly got national attention by winning the 1930 Bendix Trophy Race, scooting from Los Angeles to Chicago non-stop in 9 hr. 9 min. With laconic Australian Harold Gatty...
...confiscation of the profit, either by an outright seizure or by a tax of 100 per cent on all gold profit, is being discussed. Certain constitutional difficulties stand in the way of such a confiscatory tax and it has been suggested that the Federal Reserve Banks voluntarily sign a waiver of all possible claims for the gold profit...
What rights has the former Mrs. Anne Cannon Reynolds in the estate? Was her waiver of her rights at the time of her divorce legal? Could she waive the rights of her infant daughter...
...Echtzel Wendel, the bulk of whose estate (esti mated $50,000,000 to $75,000,000) was left to charity (TIME, March 23 et seq.). On behalf of the claimant, one Rosa Dew Stansbury, small, 74-year-old spinster of Vicksburg, Miss., they sought to have set aside a waiver which she had signed for $1,000 without benefit of counsel; the fight began when Lawyer Hays obtained a temporary injunction restraining the estate from using the waiver. Predictable Miss minimum fee of the three lawyers if Miss Stansbury collects $1,000,000 Artist James Montgomery Flagg...
...Adopted a resolution to extend time for the assessment, refund and credit of 1927 and 1928 income taxes levied on married couples having joint incomes. ¶ Passed law-enforcement bills: 1) providing for waiver of trial by jury in the U. S. District Courts, 2) defining petty offenses and their penalties, 3) defining "casual or slight violations" of the Jones ("Five & Ten") Act, 4) providing for summary prosecution of such violations...