Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week of the year when the average citizen was really close to the Federal Government. He had to be. No matter how much he wriggled, the Internal Revenue Bureau would grab his wrist, yank him off balance, hiss for quiet, and take his jelly beans away from him. If he tried to hide them, he ran a good chance of having his marbles, jackknife, ocarina and super-magnifying atom ring confiscated, and his pants warmed with a shingle...
...moral fiber. It maintained a bland and jolly attitude about the whole thing and publicly assumed that every man was rushing to the mailbox with a scrupulously honest accounting of his financial status. But from behind this smiling front, it watched the populace beadily; the Internal Revenue Bureau already has 45,000 people at work, and this year added 1,950 more gumshoe accountants. In fact, the bureau spent $1 for every $200 it collected, including about $100 million on enforcement...
...erring taxpayer; for one thing, judges and juries were apt to sympathize with the fellow, feeling that after he had paid up what he owed, and a 50% additional penalty for fraud, he had suffered enough. But the garden variety of sinners were informed of what the Internal Revenue Bureau grandly calls "innocent mistakes" in such grating terms that almost all broke into a heavy sweat and laid the money on the line...
Last-Wednesday the Weather Bureau and the H.A.A. saw fit to cooperate and Munro led his band forth into the March gales to practice on the Busy School soccer field, bounded on the side by a sacred bit of yet-undried turf--the main part of the field--and on the other by a late spring artificial lake...
John W. Teele '27, Director of the Student Placement Bureau and Harvard Red Cross Chairman, announced yesterday that the local drive has reached 75 percent of its quota with $8900 of the necessary $11,969 already...