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...issue stemmed directly from the Economy Act which the new Congress passed in March 1933-on the President's say-so and almost with its eyes closed. That measure, often acclaimed as the Administration's longest single step forward toward governmental reform, authorized the President to reduce the pay of government employes by 15%, to cut veterans' pensions and weed out those who were drawing compensation for injuries not even remotely connected with the War. Budget savings of $625,000,000 were important but more important was the principle of administrative instead of legislative control of pensions...
...Washington next day the onetime Secretary of the Treasury let fly one of the longest and angriest statements of his 79 years: "The action ... is politics of the crudest sort! I am as much in the dark as anyone. . . . For many months now a campaign of character-wrecking and abuse has been conducted against me. . . . I know there has been no evasion of taxes on my part...
...brief was a bound volume of 520 pages, the defense's a volume of 1,000 pages. The testimony filled 10,000 pages and the exhibits filled a 10 ft. shelf. The action was brought in 1931 and the six- month trial in 1932 was one of the longest on record. There was no jury, no spectators. Concluded last year, U. S. v. Sugar Institute, Inc. et al. was the most important anti-trust case since the dissolution of Standard...
...three per cent of the American people who pay all the income taxes to the Federal Government have a new worry. When will Uncle Sam descend on the taxpayer who may have thought he was making an longest but who now must prove its count that it was no fraudulent intent or go to jail...
When he had finished the President went to another hall where an overflow audience had heard him only by amplifiers. To them he said: "I'll tell you a secret. It is the longest speech I have made in all the past year. I said what I believe...