Word: assessor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Supporting Argument. In Los Angeles, Deputy County Assessor Bernard Berkey appeared before a group of other assessors, failed to get the reduction he wanted on his own property despite his plea: "If the termites in my 36-year-old home were to stop holding hands the house would fall down...
Empathy. In Los Angeles, when complaints about property-tax hikes began to pour into the county tax-collector's office. Assistant Assessor R. E. Bouck nervously warned his staff not to further inflame taxpayers by displaying "undue hilarity" in corridors or public elevators...
...years Nebraskans virtually ignored personal-property taxes, fibbed unashamedly to the county assessor. A look at tax rolls made it appear that most Nebraskans were living as primitively as their sod-busting pioneer ancestors-without refrigerators, radios, gas stoves or jewelry. Last year Freshman Governor Robert Crosby told citizens that real-estate taxes could be lowered if they would honestly pay their personal-property taxes. Crosby, young (43) and ambitious, started an "Operation Honesty" campaign, crisscrossed the state by plane (TIME, March 15), making speeches every chance...
Emanuel Swedenborg was a physicist; in 1716 King Charles XII of Sweden appointed him assessor-extraordinary to the Royal Board of Mines. He was also perhaps the most versatile genius-of-all-trades since Leonardo da Vinci...
Family Affair. In Warren, Conn., after a town election, the Tanner family discovered that its members had won the following posts: tax collector, tax assessor and justice of the peace, town deposit fund agent and town clerk treasurer, first selectman, town constable...