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Despite Franklin's fears, few Presidents had grown richer on the job. One who did was William Howard Taft. To incoming President Woodrow Wilson, Taft wrote helpfully: "You will find that Congress is very generous with the President. You have all your transportation paid for, and all servants in the White House except such valet and maid as you and Mrs. Wilson choose to employ . . . Your laundry is looked after in the White House. Altogether ... I have been able to save from my four years about...
...financial trading. Forrestal pointed out: "I stated that the applicable tax laws of the U.S. and Canada had led me to make" an investment in 1929 in a Canadian company. In effect, he had found a way to postpone tax payments. That same year (1929), said Forrestal, he had paid upwards of $300,000 in federal and New York State taxes. It was his behavior as a friendly witness in the Senate hearing which prompted Roosevelt to ask him to serve as one of his assistants. When Forrestal left Dillon Read to go into government, he sold all his interests...
Priddy's experiments with his first line apparently paid off, since the first linesmen Timpson, Koch, and Nichols accounted for four of the six Harvard goals. Second stringers Harris, Hatch, and Snelling raised the total...
...Boston Repertory Association has paid off another handsome dividend to the citizenry in "Richard III." Though produced under the name of the Association, it is actually the baby of Richard Whorf and Richard Barr, who hope to present this version on Broadway in the near future. As a Repertory offering it rates an unhesitating recommendation, but it is not a very good play, and the Messrs. Whorf and Barr could do well to devote their talents elsewhere in the Bard's works...
...Although the HAA supplies equipment and referees as it does for the Houses, and Intramural Director Samborski contributes his help, there is no provision for trophies or managers' salaries. House athletic secretaries receive $150 per year and their assistants, $50, from the HAA. The freshman secretary's salary is paid from spare Union funds, and the team managers receive nothing. Moreover, as late-comers, the freshmen suffers more than anyone else from lack of facilities...