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...present time I am defending a former official of the Government who is being sued for damages on the allegation that he compelled the payment of a tax which was in fact invalid. This man was trying to enforce a Federal statute, asserting that the tax was valid, and trying to collect it. He is now being sued for that by one of the persons who paid the tax. His interests are absolutely identical with those of the Government of the United States. I do not see why a Member of the House or Senate should be prohibited from acting...
...Senate committee called him in 1930 to inquire why he had not reported $48,000 contributed to his anti-Smith campaign; 2) he was indicted under the Corrupt Practices Act in 1931; 3) after his three-year battle to outlaw the indictment the Supreme Court declared it valid; 4) last week he and his confidential secretary were in a District of Columbia Court fighting against conviction on charges that might send them both to jail for two years and result in a $10,000 fine. Walking with a cane but otherwise apparently untouched by ravages of age or care...
...Court's opinion, welcomed by many a rich actor and actress anxious to avoid high brackets, found "no valid reason to doubt the testimony of the taxpayer," unprecedentedly recognized the value to an actor of the patronage of newspaper men, clubwomen, social leaders, White House physicians, Cabinet members, politicians...
...near rich which may impede the further burgeoning of the little buds of recovery which seem to be cropping up in the British Isles? Second, will not the costs of purchase, destruction, and reconstruction force a high rental, higher than slum-dwellers can pay. That this objection is valid seems to be granted by the National government, who in their nascent proposal along these lines are said to have included a decree to prevent overcrowding in neighboring tenements--implying that ht maximum limit of inhabitants per square foot of rooming space will be made necessary by the flood of dispossessed...
Granted that flying conditions were poor; granted that army fliers lack experience in blind and instrument piloting, radio beacon landing; granted that the government's aeroplanes were some years behind the civilian transport machines in efficient performances--that may be valid excuse for their poor performance in carrying the mails, but it would be small consolation had the emergency been one which could not be controlled by executive order or opposition legislation. The individual army pilots lack neither courage or ability, but the equipment, training, and morale of that service is far below the standards of practical preparedness...