Word: assessor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco. With no hardship at all, Republican Incumbent George Christopher, 52, walloped Democratic Tax Assessor Russell Wolden, 49, by more than 50,000 votes. Greek-born George Christopher, who showed his abilities during his first term and enhanced his position when he rang in a warm San Francisco welcome for Nikita Khrushchev (cabled Khrushchev: "Had I been a citizen of your beautiful city, I would undoubtedly have voted for you"), had the city in his pocket virtually from the beginning, even though registration is overwhelmingly Democratic. In his wild-swinging campaign, Opponent Wolden accused Christopher's administration of permitting...
...jostle McCulloch v. Maryland in the eyes of the four dissenting members (Felix Frankfurter, John Marshall Harlan, Harold Burton, Charles E. Whittaker). At issue: a property tax levied by the city of Detroit on the Murray Corp., a subcontractor manufacturing airplane parts for the U.S. Air Force. The city assessor counted as taxable property some $2,000,000 worth of parts, materials, etc., which were chargeable to the U.S. Government and were labeled as U.S. property. Ruled the court majority, in effect: the city was taxing not the federal property, but Murray's "possession" of it-a ruling that...
Absentee Ballot. In Waukesha, Wis., the first prize in a drawing-a one-week plane trip to Florida for two-was won by City Assessor Thomas S. Kilpatrick, who had left the day before for Florida...
...assessed tax value of the buildings now used by Sargent was estimated at $139,300, as of Jan. 1, 1956, according to records in the Cambridge City Assessor's Office. Boston University owns 10,093 square feet of land at 1595 Massachusetts Ave., with an estimated value...
...when his father died. Although he attended evening high school for a while, he never graduated. "I've done a lot of reading on my own," Vellucci adds, however, "and I've taken correspondence courses on accounting." At present he holds the job of an income tax assessor for the state of Massachusetts...