| Show WHO IN THE SALARY LINE few people but read with inter est the figures submitted last week by the treasury department of the united states as required by the 1934 revenue act showing the salaries paid to the peo pie in the united states who received in 1934 incomes from salaries of over to a certain extent it gives a key to what american citizens demand and pay for and it exactly demonstrate the best of taste in all cases william randolph hearst tops the list with a salary of as a publisher and next in line in the journalistic field comes arthur brisbane with while the editor of the readers digest and a cartoonist follow with slightly over each mac west heads the list of movie stars with over as her 1934 salary while a number of them took in over the president of the campbell soup co the president of the presidential insurance co the head of the kress stores and the president of the coco cola co are arc all in the class of those receiving over while the president of the american tobacco co received dr C H mayo and dr W J mayo at the head of the world famous mayo c clinic at rochester received each what has made these people famous and brought them their fabulous salaries Is it P public bublic sentiment and demand the year 1934 according to treasury department reports was not so good for the million dollar a year men fourteen of those in this class in 1933 dropped out leaving only 32 individuals in the united states who were so many times a millionaire that income amounted to one million dollars only one citizen had an income of more than in 1934 compared with 38 in 1929 the year of the great explosion in financial circles there was a notable increase in the moderate incomes those over a year with 1934 reporting such individuals compared to in 1933 altogether there were individual returns filed for 1934 with only being taxable these had a tax liability of an increase of per cent over 1933 net income shown by the returns was for 1934 an increase of per cent over the preceding year |
