Word: assessor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor Lyons, running for re-election, although he has lowered the Cambridge tax rate by 50 cents to $41 per thousand assessor real estate valuation, faces opposition on two fronts. The police force is down on him for closing the path to advancement for many years by twenty-one receipt promotions, and Labor is angry at his refusal, for obscure political reasons, to accept Federal money for building improvements...
...files of the City Assessor and Auditor there is, however, a direct contradiction to Councilman Toomey's resolution regarding taxes. Toomey declared "that Harvard University has consistently refused to make any payment for such services (police, fire and health protection) or to the contribute to the city of Cambridge in any manner...
...Queen, Ark., home town of State Auditor Oscar Humphrey, who is armless, three Democratic candidates are campaigning for the office of tax assessor: Ed Lee Cox, Ed Shipman, Cathell Hendricks, each minus his left...
...residence from California to New York. Lately, Mr. Hearst has been having his prodigiously scrambled possessions audited, consolidated, made liquid by a new set of exchequer chancellors (TIME, March 14, et ante). Last week, for reasons best known to his tax experts, William Randolph Hearst wrote a letter to Assessor W. M. Hollister of San Luis Obispo County, Calif. announcing that as of January 1 he had returned his legal residence to his San Simeon estate. Though he issued no detailed explanation of his return to native soil, the inference was that California would now be less expensive...
Julie's sister was too respectable to take a job as typist for an ambitious, vulgar, unscrupulous insurance assessor named Goldberg, so Julie took it herself. Before she was 16 she knew that Goldberg was an arsonist, and that she loved him. By the time she was 17 she had become, briefly and unpleasantly, his mistress...