Word: collect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a House resolution extending the time for making tax returns on windfall taxes (the "unjust enrichment tax" to collect the bulk of the invalidated AAA processing taxes which processors had already passed on to the public). Sent it to the President who signed it two days before the tax returns were...
Organized by states and counties shoulder-to-shoulder with the state and county medical societies, the American Society for the Control of Cancer's women's army is first going to collect $1 from at least 2,000,000 U. S. women. With this $2,000,000 the army will finance mass meetings, lectures, radio broadcasts, newspaper and magazine articles, print and distribute tons of literature urging all U. S. women to be on the alert for unusual lumps, sores, bleeding, and telling them what to do about these symptoms if they occur...
...Each year the masters of Merton College, Oxford, dispatch from the Hythe police station in rural Kent the Hythe Tithe Expeditionary Force, whose duty is to collect for Merton from each farm one-tenth of its harvested crops, one-tenth of its yearly litter of hogs, sheep, cows and chickens...
...first proposed or should they simply relieve the H.A.A. of the interdiction laid upon it and leave further organization up to Mr. Bingham? No Student Council committee should be asked to decide this problem for the Houses. It can only cooperate with those concerned, act as an intermediary, collect information, and most important of all gather opinions. In the final analysis, the Houses must settle these questions for themselves...
...most active members in developing the Guggenheim copper empire. He is still a director in half-a-dozen mining companies besides holding a partnership in Guggenheim Bros. He has served as board chairman of American Smelting & Refining Co. Many years ago he began to collect pictures, built up a valuable collection of such objective paintings as Dutch old masters, German and Italian primitives...