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...puts all the costs, including the overhead, on the shipper, whereas the second places only the actual transpiration charge on the shipper. That is, cost for cost, the water transportation as planned in the St. Lawrence development project would be far more expensive for the shipper, if the tax-payer was not supposed, as in the computations of the enthusiasts, to pay at least three and a half dollars per ton shipped on the overhead and capital costs. If we add to this the fact that it would not be profitable for ocean-going vessels to be routed through...
Sayre for Payer...
...month in office. Assistant Secretary of State Payer made news last week with a fervent speech at Washington's University Club. With many an oratorical flourish he discussed the New Deal, laid down its "Ten Commandments." Excerpts...
...most inveterate public speaker in the Department of State is Assistant Secretary Harry Franklin Payer. Son of an Austrian Army officer, he was born in Cleveland 58 years ago. went to Western Reserve, became a lawyer. He teamed up politically with Cleveland's Tom Johnson and Newton Baker. His particular interest was judicial reform. He affects 19th Century attire and speech, wears old-fashioned stiff collars, voluminous cravats, striped trousers, heavy black coats. His round, Pickwickian cheeks dimple with smiles and he trains his frizzy grey hair to stand out in Dickensian tufts at the sides of his bald...
...used to call me yellow." And thirdly, the peace-loving masses are mostly, women, and talk incessantly of "women and children." If the cause of World peace has a strong argument today, it is to point out the phenomenon of post-war Depression, and the burden to the tax-payer of preparations, operations, reparations, and veterans legislations. This last "Men Must Fight" fail...