06 Dec 1933
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Newspaper
Daily Capital News
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1933
Page
1
A column mixing political notes on the Senate liquor bill with local appeals for early Christmas shopping in Jefferson City. It references wheat checks, Roosevelt’s speech, Missouri farm loans, and various civic matters while touting merchants, legal notices, and public concerns.
The piece uses a river fable to critique Democratic leadership and fiscal policy, comparing Thompson's colt crossing a river to officials who rock the party boat. It cites Dr. William Thorp on the money system, critiques college language reform, praises church women’s Church Day, and questions financial elites while endorsing Irving Fisher and the President amid turbulent policy debates.
The Cincinnati Enquirer argues that the phrase sound money distorts truth and threatens recovery. It notes gold standard rigidity, dollar stability issues, and central bank influence, urging readers to question gold return pressures and recognize how rhetoric harms economic policy.
The Utah state convention ratified the 21st Amendment ending federal prohibition. Sam D Thurman cast Utah's 21st vote amid praise and final confirmation announced by president Hay Olson. The assembly warned repeal does not solve liquor issues and urged new temperance approaches.
William Phillips Acting Secretary of State proclaims the Eighteenth Amendment replaced by the Twenty First. He notes Congress proposed a constitutional amendment and lists states ratifying to reach three fourths, declaring the amendment valid and part of the Constitution as of December 1, 1933.
Washington December 5 The House Ways and Means subcommittee recommends broad revenue law changes to raise about 237 million dollars, proposing a single 4 percent normal tax on net income, higher surtaxes with fewer brackets, higher dividend and interest taxes, a 35 percent tax on undistributed income of personal holding companies, abolition of consolidated returns, and curbs on partnership losses. The full committee will hear more proposals. liquor taxation remains for separate legislation.
Montgomery Ward and Company earned a net profit of 570795 in the nine months to October 31, vs a loss of 2413197 for the same period in 1932. The third quarter profit was 4049778, up from 1174027 a year earlier. All mail order houses were profitable in the third quarter, the first such gain since 1929, with 72 percent of retail stores reporting profit in nine months, up from 40 percent in 1922.
Major General Smedley D. Butler denounced a St Joseph dispatch calling the NRA the National Racketeering Association. He said he supported the NRA, joked about names, and stressed he is heartily behind it and would not let his wife shop at stores lacking blue eagle display. London study notes a young population.
New York reports a night of celebrations as liquor once banned returns to bars from Broadway to Park Avenue. Police launch a674 strong crackdown on remaining speakeasies while patrols raid suspected spots and arrest offenders.
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