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Accepted the resignation of Rudolph Russo as the city's chief assessor. Russo's tenure has been marked by controversy, especially in the last few months when the assessors have come under heavy fire for failing to complete the scheduled 100 per cent reassessment of city property (see other story this page...
...would not be recognized." He found ample acceptance for his expertise in public service and journalism, first, in 1940, as a Keynesian economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation, during World War II in the Office of Price Administration, and then as an interrogator of Nazi war criminals and assessor of Allied bomb damage. Whenever Washington appeared to offer him an office but little to do, he returned to FORTUNE, where he had been an intermittent contributor since 1943. In 1948 it was back to Harvard, and eventually a full professor ship. Galbraith's life cuts a pattern...
...1970s, Harvard noticed that the taxes being paid on your building were too high in proportion to the rents being paid. The Cambridge Tax Assessor agreed and lowered the taxes to bring them in line with the rents," Wade's letter states...
...that surround the tiny county seat of Eutaw. 80 miles southwest of Birmingham. Greene County is poor: the median per capita income is $4,019. But its black residents are proud of a civil rights revolution they helped create. Says John Kennard, the county's first black tax assessor: "One of the most cherished things our people have here in the black belt is the right to vote." TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph N. Boyce visited Eutaw last week. His report...
Officials of Greene County say it is important to extend the Voting Rights Act so that other areas can duplicate these gains. Explains Assessor Kennard: "We came through it all. But there's Pickens County to the north with a majority of black residents but no black elected officials, and Hale County, which has just begun with black membership on the county commission." Judge Branch adds that failure to renew the act could lead to backsliding. Says he: "It would turn back the clock on a lot of the progress...