Word: refundings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Imperial University at Tokyo (1892), he entered the Imperial Department of Finance as one of its lowest clerks, quickly vaulted to the complete superintendence of the Tax Bureau and was sent to Paris, London and Manhattan after the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) to negotiate loans for reconstruction and refund the Japanese war debt-in all of which activities he was phenomenally successful. Returning to Japan, he was rewarded by the late Prince Katsura. founder of the Kensei-kai (the present Government party), who made him Vice Minister of Finance but allowed him entirely to determine the policy of that...
...President received a check for $7,000, a refund on income taxes paid by him in 1923. The refund was made in accordance with a decision by the Supreme Court that a tax constitutes a diminution of salary, and the Constitution forbids increasing or diminishing the salary of a President during his term in office. The decision will save the President some $60,000 during his term of office, and the estate of President Harding will receive refunds of about...
...more interesting cases is that of the Gulf Oil Co., in which Secretary Mellon is or was interested. The company paid taxes of over $10,000,000 for 1915-19 and got a refund of nearly $4,000,000. The case was settled in about a week after amended returns were filed in February, 1921, although in many cases such settlements drag out for months, years. The Committee claims that the company should not only have had no refund, but should have paid $600,000 additional. In the warfare between Senator Couzens and Secretary Mellon, the case has only...
...Attorney General of Texas, hot on the trail of road contracts let by Governess Ferguson's Highway Commission, succeeded in getting a judgment for the refund of $600,000 excess profits from the American Road Co., in spite of Mrs. Ferguson's directing the Highway Commission to support the road company. Talk of impeaching Governess Ferguson had been smoldering for several weeks. With the judgment it burst into flame...
Diplomats are diplomats, and their persons are sacred and there must be reparations if they are offended. There have been cases in this country where one of them, upon being arrested and fined for speeding, has objected to the State Department and received an apology and a refund of the fine. But Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland is a stern man. In Baltimore the car of Count Gian Franco Della Porta, attaché of the Italian Embassy, ran into the automobile of a citizen, one Marks. A policeman came up. The Count paid Mr. Marks $30 and departed. Then...