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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Y K. HUDSON, onetime member of the New York Stock Exchange, owns 78% of a company in Newfoundland, the rest belonging to his brother and a close friend. Last year he lost $130,000 on the sale of securities. According to the income tax law a taxpayer cannot deduct losses beyond $2,000 unless they are balanced by corresponding profits. Rather than let his loss (tax credit) go to waste, Mr. Hudson sold other securities to his Newfoundland company for a profit of $130,000. Later if and when that company sells those securities it will not have any taxable...
...favorite name with Mr. Bache. On Upper Saranac Lake (N. Y.) is his Camp Wenonah...
...April day, six years ago when Herbert Hoover was President, Mrs. Lizzie Jaynes, cashier of a "Garden T Shoppe" in Washington was mortally wounded in a holdup. One Thomas Jordon, 31-year-old busboy, was among those suspected. Two years ago Thomas Jordon, living in Mount Vernon, N. Y., and wishing to get married wrote to inquire whether he was still under suspicion. Two Federal officers went to question him, obtained a confession. He was tried for murder, repudiated his confession (which he said had been obtained by threats to drag his fiancee into the case) and convicted. Five times...
Such was the position of wealthy Mrs. Juliet Tuttle, 65, after the deaths of three popular dogs of suburban Eastchester, N. Y. last month (TIME. May 31). But at her trial last week, other evidence darkened the picture. Found near the spot where she had approached the dogs was a capsule which had contained cyanide of potassium. A former chauffeur of hers testified he had resigned "in disgust" because she used to have him stop the car while she got out to give capsules to stray cats. When the cats keeled over she would deliver them...
...Police will arrest for topless suits in Atlantic City, St. Louis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Syracuse, N. Y., Toledo, Galveston, El Paso, Springfield, Mass., Birmingham, Evansville, Ind., Baltimore...