Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another account: Billy Patterson was a beloved Manhattan barkeep of the 1880s, who was felled one night as he left the Star and Garter's side door, by an unknown dastard with a blackjack...
...Bone apparently failed to take into account that many States do not allow taxpayers to deduct Federal taxes in figuring their State income tax. Bone, Nye & Co. proposed such wartime tax rates that many top-bracket taxpayers would find their total taxes all but swallowing their net income (but not exceeding it, as newspapers reported last week). In New York, for example (which has a State tax graduated up to 7% plus a 1% emergency tax), a $500,000-a-year man in a war year would have to pay Federal and State income taxes totaling...
...eleven, had small faith in her husband's and son's management of money. They gave her all proceeds from the smithy except what they needed for personal expenses. She also had small faith in banks. This, says Jimmy Hines, explains why he had no bank account after 1908, why he carried large sums of cash. After he married in 1904 his wife bore him three sons and took care of most of his finances...
...Jimmy Hines had a sizable brokerage account. In 1929 a bank lent her $88,487.70 to pay off the brokers, took over her securities. Between 1929 and 1937, her bankers received $62,000 from unidentified sources for Mrs. Hines. Only once did Jimmy Hines have a brokerage account in his own name. Then he gambled in $38,000 worth of Johns-Manville stock, lost $5,458 in twelve days, settled with the brokers for $4,000. He and some friends borrowed $132,559.59 from Lawyer Max Steuer to buy 850 shares of stock in the New York Giants (baseball...
These opinions appear in the preface of a book entitled Doctor, Here's Your Hat (published last January*), by Dr. Joseph Ambrose Jerger of Chicago. On account of them ruddy, lusty, leonine Dr. Jerger was in trouble last week with the American Medical Association-which itself is in trouble with the Department of Justice on anti-trust charges...