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Minnesota's Governor Theodore Christianson, Iowa's Governor John Hammill, Nebraska's Governor Arthur J. Weaver thought well of the scheme, asked many a question. Chief question: how to keep State legislatures from adding the gross sales tax to other burdens, instead of substituting it for them...
...Bern at 21. The same year he married Eliza Humphrey of Goldsboro. Aged 32, he was elected to the House of Representatives, soth Congress, for one unimportant term (1887-89). In 1892 when Populism threatened, he was made head of the Democratic State Executive Committee, held the Weaver vote down to 44,000. His reward came when President Cleveland named him Collector of Internal Revenue for North Carolina's Eastern district (1893-97). It was as the undisputed boss Democrat of the State, a rank he held till 1928, that he was elected to the Senate in 1900 where...
...summaries: HARVARD SPRINGFIELD Salmon, Gulick, Hurvich, Dunn, g. g., Rhinehart Robinson, Boldt, c.pt. c.pt., Netter Myerson, Clark, pt. pt., Ball Marshall, Henderson, Taylor, 1d. 1d., Murray, Burgess Brinckley, Dunn, Weiner, 2d. 2d., Ellis Faude, Lowenberg, Sweeney, 3d. 3d., Weaver Nido, Hobbs, Davidson, Briggs, c. c., Paige, Ready Cochrane, Keck, 3a. 3a., Moore, Humphrey Johnson, Pope, Briggs, 2a. 2a., Benton, Stewart Glenn, Foshay, Cory, 1a. 1a., Steen Sanders, Foshay, Lay, o.h. o.h., Ready, Waterman Murphy, Kuhl, Keck, i.h. i.h., Searle...
...Cincinnati, Miss Florence E. Weaver bequeathed her estate of $609,000 providing that it first be held at accrued interest for 500 years. The eventual amount: 24 quadrillion dollars. The purpose: to house crippled children, build parks, aid "the poor of the Caucasian race...
...Booming, bumbling Tom Shaw, one-time weaver, now War Minister, made the Parliamentary bloomer of the week. Trespassing on the fiscal preserves of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden without Cabinet authority, and possibly without knowing what he was doing. Right Honorable Tom blandly remarked that holders of British War Bonds are receiving too high a rate of interest: "They are getting $500,000,000 a year to which they have not the slightest moral right! . . . That is a fact that has got to be faced before this country can be put on its feet again...