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...unemployment relief New York currently needs $50,000,000. Mayor LaGuardia proposed a stiff tax on business. This raised such a whirlwind of opposition that he dumped the question in the lap of the Municipal Assembly, forced it to act quickly by cutting off all relief payments for four days. Last week the Assembly voted three taxes which needed only the Mayor's signature for enactment. First was a 1/10% tax on gross business receipts above $15,000 a year. Second was a tax of 15% on amounts paid in Federal income taxes. Third was a euphemism for "lottery...
...Export Fatigue." Energetic Dr. Schmitt, a keen sportsman and a Mounted Group Leader of Equestrian S. S. Troops, was brought to bed by nervous exhaustion. He had worn himself out on a whirlwind tour of the Fatherland to drive home the slogan: "Stimulate Exports as a National Duty...
...Laws One hot noon last week President Roosevelt sat in the back of his open touring car, a roll and a hot dog in one hand, a glass of beer in the other. Once more he was in his native Dutchess County and once more he was completing a whirlwind circuit of fun and play...
...record for the 30-mile Cup course, had her bow sharpened to make her faster in light airs. Frank Paine, her designer, raised the money by subscription in Boston. Weetamoe had her keel weights deepened and moved forward to make her more seaworthy. The New York syndicate which owns Whirlwind, slowest of 1930's four contenders, did not recondition her this year. vanitie, under this year's rules, is ineligible to defend the Cup; she raced last week to keep the others company...
...Frank M. Lindsay 1B, the Mellon House team defeated the Chase team in a Business School League game yesterday by the score 20 to 10. Lindsay made 8 points for the victors and John Parker Ricketts 1B also aided the winning team with six markers. Mellon started with a whirlwind attack which gained 12 points before the Chase team could tally once. Chase then put up a stiff offensive but could not make up the difference...