Word: collectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nigerian blacks have been in an ugly, riotous mood of late, due to the Government's unpopular attempts to collect a head tax on their woolly polls. At Itu, Nigeria, the local British river steamer was chased by tax-indignant blacks in war canoes. "With regard to the women," concluded Dr. Shiels, "His Majesty's Government is informed that they were encouraged in their provocation by a man who told them that British troops would never fire on persons of their...
Jack Johnson, oldtime Negro boxer, onetime (1908-15) heavyweight champion of the world, has been conducting a dance band at New Haven, Conn. Last week he asked the city attorney to help collect his back wages from the music hall management. The city attorney declined, said he was no bill collector...
...land) being incapable of reproduction and being immovable, their value depends entirely upon location; and that location--value, in turn, depends upon accessibility and desirability, affected in large part by the expenditure of public money for highways and other public improvements. So it is seen that if we could collect taxes on the basis of land values we probably could take much of the "trouble" out of taxes
...refuses to recognize the government it wants to talk to, and urge that the United States first grant recognition so that orderly intercourse will be possible. As for the second, the U. S. S. R. has simply suggested in a nice way that before the United States attempts to collect anything for its citizens it should first make reparations for the ravages inflicted on the Soviet Union by American troops near Archangel and by the White expeditions, such as those of Koltchak and Denekin, which were paid for with American money. As to the third, hostile propaganda...
...money on his goods while they are in transit. At present such goods are a frozen asset while in transit. A middle-west manufacturer can put goods for export on a railroad train and forget about them until he receives the money for them from Bush Service, which will collect his customers' bills in Europe. An indication of the scope of the system: in Rumania there will be Bush Service offices in 14 cities, only one of which is even remotely familiar to American ears: Alba, Bucharest, Arad, Targu, Mures, Cernauti, Galatz, Braila, Constanza, Oradea, Timisora, Julia, Deva, Cluj...