Word: collect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration officials appeared reconciled tonight to the fact that on Saturday the government will collect only Finland's $228,538 of the total $154,729,967 war debt installments falling...
...corporate fear of the tax collector. Under the Revenue Act the Federal Government may lay a penalty up to 35% on the net income of a corporation which accumulates surpluses in excess of what the Government believes it "reasonably" needs. Month ago the Treasury Department launched a drive to collect such penalties from some 100 U. S. corporations (TIME, Oct. 29). The Treasury Department found itself in a morass of legal tangles arising from the difficulty of deciding what needs are ''reasonable." It was clear from last week's outpouring of extra dividends that many a corporation had decided...
...policy this year by appointing a committee of 20 Juniors and 10 Sophomores to assist them. The names of the group will be announced tomorrow. Ballot boxes will be placed in all the Houses and in Harvard, Seaver, and Pierce Halls. Arrangements have also been made to collect ballots from Phillips Brooks House for the convenience of commuters. Voting hours around the Yard will be from 10 to 12 o'clock while voting in the Houses will take place at meal-time...
...rosy romantics who read Austin Dobson, collect bisque statuets of Pierrot & Columbine and attend lectures on the 17th Century harlequinade like to remember that there exists in the U. S. today a vivid healthy parallel of the true commedia dell' arte. Like the commedia, the Burlesque Show is extemporaneous, its libretto an assembly of long-remembered "bits" that have never been formally written down. Like the commedia, Burlesque has developed a cast of traditional characters with formalized costumes. The tramp, the Jew, the policeman, the soubrette and the straight man are as persistently unvarying as Harlequin, Pierrot, Columbine...
...stockholders and its management. The stockholders blamed the management for Kelly-Springfield's troubles. The management blamed Depression. A third group, the noteholders, stayed out of the argument until last week. Then, fearful lest the company's large annual loss make it impossible for them to collect anything, the noteholders applied to a Jersey City court for the appointment of a receiver...