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Although investigations had barely begun, last week, the German Government pledged its every endeavor to stamp out a species of corruption which means that Germany has been credited with transferring $12,000,000 to France which was not received, but instead was divided between overpaid German swindlers and their French accomplices...
...taxes payable for fiscal years from 1927 back to 1925 and beyond. These mistakes netted the U. S. a total overpayment of $103,858,687.78. Last week Secretary Mellon sent Congress the names-numbering some 240,000 and taking up 12,133 typed pages- of the taxpayers who had overpaid and were owed specified refunds. Among the names was Sir Harry Lauder's. He was to get back $5,403.62 as soon as Congress should authorize Secretary Mellon's list...
...trouble with this senatorial work is that there isn't enough to keep one busy. . . . We are all overpaid! I'd like to go back to railroading it; it is the most fascinating business in the world. Senators' vacations are too long! We waste too much time!" So said James Couzens, U. S. Senator from Michigan, interviewed last week during his 55th birthday. One-time freight-car checker, onetime Ford vice president, Senator Couzens is reputed to be the richest member of the U, S. Senate...
...time-wasting fatuousness of congress, except in rare moments when driven by a vigorous personality; here he can see the president steering his middle course and saying nothing; here he can see underpaid clerks swarming from the grimy and red taped government departments; here he can see overpaid members of the now countless federal commissions making self satisfied and often irresponsible decisions reaching into the every day lives of the plain people of the land; here, in fine, he can delight his eyes with the foreign diplomats and the "dancing boys of the state department". I forgot to mention that...
...Ordinary professors are overpaid. After the first forty years of his life, the ordinary professor, like the New England farmer, gets discouraged and begins not doing more than a third or fourth of the things which he is at liberty to do. He begins to see that his profession does not adequately test him for any definite achievement in his line. . . . I am acquainted with no more essentially sluggish, improvident, resourceless, unambitious, and time-wasting creature than the ordinary professor of forty, nor anything more empty of adventure or hope than the future years of his career, daily...