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...raise relief funds. The only new tax to which he is definitely committed is one on beer. Publisher Hearst is Democracy's prime agitator for a General Sales Tax but his own party tore that proposal to bits in the last session. Most Democrats want to see the well-to-do pay higher taxes, but are slowly coming to realize that sky-high rates on luxuries and big incomes fail to produce proportionate revenue in hard times and therefore defeat their own end. Thus the General Sales Tax may become the only practical means of balancing the budget...
...Legion's million members are feeling the pinch of hard times. They, as veterans, think the Government owes them something. They have collected 50% on their Bonus certificates as loans. Now they want the balance. With the instinct of buck privates they are tired of being led by well-to-do officers who seem to be taking orders from the White House. Organized originally as an explicitly non-political body, they have, through the exhortations of ambitious leaders and the promises of office-seeking politicians, become conscious of their political power. Throughout the land they this year elected...
...Author, Marcel Proust (pronounced "Proost") was born in Paris in 1871, son of a well-to-do bourgeois doctor and his Jewish wife. Delicate and sensitive from birth, he suffered all his life from asthma. From a very early age he was intellectually and socially ambitious, took himself with a seriousness which only success can excuse. His poor health did not prevent his taking his degree and serving his military service. His father wanted him to be a diplomat, but he postponed the issue by dabbling at the Sorbonne. Meeting with Henri Bergson influenced his decision on a literary career...
Denver's workers live to the west of the Civic Centre in rows of neat cottages set in flower beds. They have their fun at three municipal golf courses, lakes in the city parks, 26 mountain parks owned by Denver, amusement parks (Elitch Gardens, Lakeside). Well-to-do Denverites live east of the Civic Centre on the slightly raised extension of Capitol Hill. They spend their weekends at the Cherry Hills or Denver Country Club or on estates in the mountains. In the summer stock companies play at Elitch Gardens. Rich and poor shop at the big drygoods store...
...course of his not too nostalgic childhood reminiscences Author Mackenzie takes his readers the length of a Victorian London street, introduces them to as engaging a troupe of well-to-do householders as ever went to market to buy fat pigs. Memories of their sooty black houses, architecturally linear and flat, are prettily three-dimensionalized by little whirlwinds of domestic perturbations spiralling, like smoke from the chimney-pots, above every roof...