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...lubricating oil, he sold $57,500 worth of stock in a nonexistent oil well. The shareholders finally caught on, and Mann was brought to trial; but the judge dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction. Encouraged, Mann packed his carpetbag in 1866 and moved on to Mobile as Federal Assessor of Internal Revenue. In 1872 he patented a design for a railroad sleeping car (consisting of a series of stateroomlike compartments) and sailed for Europe. There he leased his cars to rail lines in half a dozen countries. Eleven years later he returned to the U.S., several times a millionaire...
Place to Be Lousy. Marilyn began her voice lessons at five under the unstinting tutelage of her father, a "semiprofessional tenor" when he wasn't tending to his duties as town assessor of Bradford, Pa. When the family moved to Long Beach, Calif., Marilyn joined the Roger Wagner Chorale, later won a voice scholarship to the University of Southern California where she flunked, among other things, opera workshop for refusing to sing Carmen (she did not feel ready for the role). She spent her time instead singing avant-garde music at the Hollywood Bowl under the direction of Igor...
...virtue of low appraisals of the market value of their properties. When these appraisals are figured at the official assessment rate of 42% , they mostly fall below $5,000, which is then forgiven under Florida's ancient "homestead exemption." Every attempt by worried parents to elect an assessor who would raise appraisals has met defeat. Turning from the polls to the courtroom, a band of determined Jacksonville citizens this week begins testifying in a suit that seeks to force the assessment of all property at fully 100% of market value...
...community has fought desperately to prevent the BRA from seizing its land. Residents have turned out en masse for public hearings, chased a BRA assessor from the area, and picketed Mayor Collins' home...
Nikiforov served as consultant in the compilation of The Fundamentals of Criminal Legislation, Legal Code of 1958; and in the 1960 Criminal Code of the R.S.F.S.R. and that of other Union Republics. Fifty-year-old Nikiforov is also a people's Assessor of the Supreme Court of the R.S.F.S.R...