Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charged with enforcing were messy right from the beginning. Within a few years after the U.S. first imposed an income tax, to help finance the Civil War, President Lincoln apologized to the nation for the "inequities in the practical applications." But he added: "If we should wait before collecting a tax, to adjust the taxes upon each man in exact proportion with every other, we should never collect...
After a most cursory examination of the water outlets in the soup kitchen he was able to tell us what was wrong. "Simple clogging," he explained. "When too much grease and scum collect in the pipes not enough water flows through--happens periodically." Then, turning to the cooking staff he made a quick executive decision: "Well, girls, there'll be no soup tonight. Suppose you take shifts on filming and spotting this afternoon." We asked what filming and spotting was, but Mr. Whiteside suggested that we leave that until later, going first to the dehydration rooms. "Better take off your...
Taxes. Ike would limit federal with holding so as to collect no more than half of an individual's total tax. If taxpayers were forced to pay the remaining half in a lump sum, said Eisenhower, they would realize more acutely their "contribution to federal profligacy." With less to spend from current revenues, he said, Congress too would realize the need to economize...
Pressure is growing to scrap prohibition, and to boost India's own alcohol production so that the state can collect substantial taxes. Even India's saintly President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan seems to have got the message. At a recent New Delhi meeting of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, he hinted that prohibition might not be the answer, observing: "It is not by legislation that one can control drinking, but by what training youth receive in their homes...
...firm and a group of truckers chipped in with equipment and manpower-tax deductible at out-of-pocket cost. Even then, with the full ransom in hand or pledged, and with fast transportation assured, the whole effort almost fell apart. For Castro insisted on ironclad guarantees that he could collect cash for any goods not delivered, once the prisoners were set free. This meant a $53 million performance bond. Katzenbach flew to Montreal to seek such a bond from the Royal Bank of Canada, which has a representative in Cuba. "It was zero-zero," recalls Katzenbach, "zero outside, and even...