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...Manual assignments in the compulsory study period and to work most of the problems assigned. Then a few hands of bridge before the lights go out might conceivably make sleeping a little easier. And if we must have night-mares it is far better to dream that we overpaid an officer, accepted "N.G." pay receipts, or messed up our quarterly returns. The purpose of the school, we think will be accomplished if we spend most of our waking hours on disbursing--out sleeping hours need not necessarily be invaded...
...shall always respect war hereafter. The cost of life, the dreary havoc of comfort and time, are overpaid by the vistas it opens of eternal life, eternal law, reconstructing and uplifting society-breaks up the old horizon and we see through the rifts a wider vista."-R. W. Emerson: Letter to Thomas Carlyle, Sept...
Meanwhile the transit labor situation gets worse weekly. Never overpaid, trolley conductors and bus drivers are scampering off to war jobs in droves. In Washington a bus driver was in such a hurry to quit that he jerked to a stop at a traffic light, left a load of puzzled passengers stranded at the curb (TIME, Sept...
Owner of two swimming pools (one "last year's model"), star of He Kissed Her Twice and Bingo, Hope is cast as a craven, overpaid actor suffering from the approach of the draft. Marriage looks like his best out. but his selected victim, a colonel's daughter (Miss Lamour), suspects his intention. He stages a fake enlistment. It backfires him into the Army...
...Elinor Fatman Morgenthau, wife of the Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, the Treasury refunded $1,449 m overpaid income...