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...draw full military compensation kept moving forward through the years. Finally a browbeaten Congress voted to compensate all veterans disabled in civil life, with pensions for all widows and orphans of all veterans as the next objective. The cost of these accumulating pension payments passed the $900,000,000-per-year mark-nearly one-quarter of the Federal budget...
Last week the National Economy League, organized last summer by Archibald Roosevelt & friends to lop some $450,000.000 from the $1,000,000,000-per-year appropriations for veterans, went into action at the Capitol for the first time as a political lobby. Pitted against the League is the full force of the American Legion and its super-lobby...
...report argued long & hard for this new type of levy, the first ever to tax everybody in the land. The tax, it said, would not be pyramided on the retail public. Even if it were completely passed on to the consumer, which was unlikely, the $2,000-per-year man would have to pay only $15.75 more. The committee could find no other tax source which would yield money "with as little protest, as little annoyance and as little disturbance to business as a manufacturers' excise...
...extraordinary batting and base-running of $4,500-per-year Centrefielder John Leonard ("Pepper") Martin of St. Louis who made three hits in the first game; made two hits, stole two bases and scored two runs in the second (TIME, Oct. 12) ; made two hits in the third; made the only two hits for St. Louis in the fourth; knocked in four runs with three hits, one of them a homerun in the fifth; was passed in the pinches in the sixth but managed to steal a base in the seventh. He tied the World Series record for total number...
...Last week Senator Borah for the first time accepted his salary at the regular $10,000-per-year rate. When in 1925 Congress raised its members' pay from $7,500 to $10,000, Senator Borah refused to take the increase on the ground that he had been elected to a $7,500 job. His re-election last November, he felt, entitled him to take pay at the new rate. Senators pay no income tax on their salaries...