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Outflanked and defeated, Henry Morgenthau nevertheless took his dress sword in hand and attacked head on. Without even a microscopic chance of success, he recited before the Senate's Finance Committee this week, his plea for a whopping tax measure. Said Treasury Counsel Randolph Paul: "It seems utterly unreasonable to erect a mountain of complexity for such a molehill of revenue...
What actually kills a man in an airplane crash? In some cases the cause of death may be his own internal organs. Reason: the impact turns them into internal missiles. So reported an Army doctor (Captain George Marvin Hass of the Army Air Forces School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, Texas) last fortnight to the Aero Medical Association's meeting at Cincinnati...
...stomach, urine in the bladder, blood in a chamber of a man's heart. Captain Hass said that if doctors had known of these crash effects in the past, many victims could have been diagnosed in time to save their lives by simple operations. Lieut. Colonel W. Randolph Lovelace, retiring president of the Association, called the paper the most important given before the Association in its 15-year history...
...week's end the Administration was ready to concede defeat. First sign of collapse: the Treasury's Tax Expert Randolph Evernghim Paul prepared to resign at the first graceful opportunity; and failing that, just to resign...
Dour, diffident Henry Morgenthau Jr. sat in the House Ways & Means Committee room one morning last week munching raisins. Beside him also munching raisins sat his chief tax expert, small, dun-colored Randolph Paul. Now & then they both drank water from a cone of paper cups piled beside a big water jug, while a battery of grey young Treasury experts, without benefit of raisins and water, periodically scrabbled for documents in accordion-sized brief cases. Morgenthau & Co. needed their vitamins: they had been up most of the night before, putting the finishing touches on the Treasury's recommendations...