Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of taxpayers on 1932 incomes is larger than it would have been if the law had been unchanged since 1929. But it was not large enough to satisfy Secretary Morgenthau. Last week he called 150 internal revenue collectors to the Treasury, told them he wanted them to collect at least $200,000,000 in back taxes which he estimated as outstanding. If they thought it would do any good he was primed to apply to the Civil Works Administration for funds to make a house-to-house canvass of the U. S. in an effort to catch tax dodgers...
...Society puts animals to death with lethal gas. Private truckers under contract to the city's Sanitation Department call daily to collect carcasses, roll them out to Barren Island. There skinners pounce on horses and mules, cats with good fur. Horse hides make shoes, baseballs; cat hides which once became ladies' neckpieces, now vanish darkly into the Orient. Skinned carcasses are dumped in a big "digester," steamed to draw out fat. This is used for rough lubricating grease. Defatted remains are dried, ground up for fertilizer. Concessionaires pocket the profit...
...prevent strapped States from piling additional imposts on liquor, the President was counseled to waive in their favor all Federal claim to "occupational" licensing fees on breweries, distilleries, wineries. Likewise it was suggested that the Treasury collect all gallonage liquor taxes at one time and divide up with the States later...
Unperturbed and backed by his wife, the eldest sister in China's famed "Soong Dynasty" (TIME, Dec. 11), Finance Minister Kung announced with stoical aplomb that he was "considering" a 28% upping of China's most vital and widely detested tax, that on salt. To collect this tax Dr. Kung's brother-in-law and predecessor as Finance Minister, famed T. V. Soong, organized a special army of "salt tax troops" and was believed to have screwed out of the peasantry the last copper cash that they would pay without rebellion...
...Cromwell) that Peerless Corp. had no charter right to engage in the brewing business, no right to sell stock to finance a wholly owned brewing subsidiary. Promptly Peerless Corp. hired slick little Max D. Steuer to file suit against Redmond & Co. to make it carry out its contract, to collect damages...