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...Coolidge has been accused of many things which are in reality the fruits of President Harding's Administration, but which he even then handled with tact and firmness. He opposed the Bonus Bill strongly, and as strongly supported Preparedness, actions which have won him general admiration. Certainly he is not a genius; equal certainly is he the conservative, level-headed man which the country needs today...
...Like Theseus entering the Labyrinth, with no string to guide him out save Assistant Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis, President Coolidge plunged into the temporary offices where the War Department is carrying on the work of preparing to pay the soldiers' bonus. In and out through corridors of files, with a dozen typewriters clicking in his ears at every turn, a battalion of adding machines belching forth figures from every cranny and 2,700 acolytes, spread over eleven acres of floor space, putting 20,000 requests through the ritual every day, the President wandered, and emerged with a smile?...
...must judge the corporate intent from the corporate acts themselves, not from the interpretation placed upon them by some individual. . . . Corporate action is presumed regular ... payment of a bonus would be regular, the making of a gift would be irregular...
...findings of fact were that the taxpayer had been General Superintendent of a coal company and a member of its Board of Directors. He had received $7,000 in salary and $3,500 as a yearly bonus, as well as directors' fees. The coal company had no regular system of paying pensions. It had a large surplus. The Directors' shares were sold, and the Board of Directors made a "gratuitous appropriation," equal to $3.00 a share, which was divided among various retiring employes. One of these was Mr. Parrott, who received $35,000. Mr. Parrott reported this...
...shot him because I loved him," the woman chuckled, according to the police, who found her loitering, in the subway station with $15 in marked bills and a State bonus blank. She said it was the roughest voyage of her sixty years' experience in the North Atlantic. "And besides," she added with eyes a-twinkle, "I never said that the Prince proposed...