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When it became apparent to the chairman of National City Bank that, even at the low rates of 1929, he would have to pay $500,000 income tax, he summoned his lawyers. When tax-day came he mailed his return to the Collector of Internal Revenue, with an oath that he owed the U. S. not a penny, since he had taken a capital loss of $2,872,000 in National City Bank stock, more than enough (with other deductions) to wipe out his year's income of $3,006,705.76-approximately $1,200,000 from salary & bonus...
...interested in mob psychology, the scene of the mighty Red Army at attention, repeating the Soviet oath after General Voroshiloff, will leave a lingering impression. Also the views of Red Square and the Kremlin have their inescapable dramatic impressiveness for anyone who is not oblivious of the importance of what is going on in Moscow...
After Speaker Rainey had sworn in the membership with one thunderous oath* and the President's message had been read, the House plunged headlong into H. R. 1491, "an act to provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking." So hastily had the bill been drawn up that no printed copies of it were yet available for members. Their only knowledge of what they were being asked to approve came from a clerk's sing-song reading of the lone text which still bore last-minute corrections scribbled in pencil. Chairman Steagall of the yet unorganized Banking...
Power to alter this national flag is not vested in the President, even by Article 48 which permits him to invoke many extraordinary powers. Therefore last week Old Paul broke his oath and violated the Constitution when he issued an edict triumphantly read to Germans over the radio at 2 p. m. by Chancellor Adolf Hitler...
...spectacle with its bands and its banners will stir the blood of some 250,000 spectators. But in all the crowd no heart will pound with such pride as that of an erect, white-haired, hazel-eyed old lady sitting close to the new President as he takes the oath before the Capitol, looking over his shoulder on the reviewing stand. Few mothers have known the exaltation that Sara Delano Roosevelt will know as she watches her only son enter the White House...