Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promptly seized $20,000,000 of Equitable assets in Russia by outright confiscation. Then one day to Ivan Ivanovich went a Bolshevik agent with further blandishments. "Comrade, your policy was of course nullified in Russia along with other capitalist contracts by a Soviet decree. You might be able to collect from the company in America. Of course as a Soviet citizen you cannot leave Russia. In these circumstances, if you will sign this paper, our Government will sue for you in New York, charging a commission of 60%,"Ivan Ivanovich grumbled but signed...
...duties of Business Board candidates will be to obtain advertising from Cambridge and Boston concerns and to collect subscriptions. Candidates for the Photographic Board will coordinate the names and pictures of the members of the Freshman Class and obtain views of the College on their on initiative. The Editorial Board will write up the various athletic sports for the year, furnish reports of the activities of the various Freshman committees, and contribute to the composition of the feature article. The Art Board will present drawings of their own and form an advisory committee for the style in which the book...
State officials have long been campaigning for an agreed division of tax sources among Federal, state and local governments. Part of the question of division depends on which taxes yield the most net revenue for which governments. Obviously the Federal Government can much more cheaply collect a gasoline tax (by imposing it at 100 refineries) than state governments can collect a similar tax (by watching every filling station and patrol ling borders for gas bootleggers). And the Federal Government can better collect income taxes because wealthy men cannot move out of a district where the local rate is high. Hence...
...Easy Street. In Richmond, Va., where he was visiting a son-in-law, David Graves George was planning at last to buy a tobacco farm. For eight years the withered old hillbilly had tried to establish himself as the author of "The Wreck of the Old 97," collect phonograph royalties from Victor Talking Machine Co. on that railroad ballad. Last week his case reached the nine black-robed judges of the U. S. Supreme Court...
...Past is a great broken tapestry whose threads are scattered through the earth. Year after year archeologists and paleontologists collect money, men and materials, journey forth to find the threads, weave them back into place. Recent doings of diggers...