Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Williams, with hardly anybody listening, had given Dunlap a clue to the real truth & consequences last February. Said Williams: "It is my belief that in many cases . . . the morale, efficiency and even the honesty of some of those who collect our federal taxes are distressingly bad . . . The reason ... is that our system of tax collection is shot full of cheap, inexcusable political manipulation...
...China's administrators being incorruptible-Communist papers are always decrying the inroad of corruption in the ranks of Red administrators . . . Tax collectors are constantly stealing grain from the taxes they collect. Judges have stolen the rings, watches, fountain pens and money of the prisoners they have condemned to the gun-the symbol and cause of Red China's efficiency...
Extracurricular activities are expected of every student. First he "joins the communist youth organization, then the Society for Soviet-German friendship, and finally the Communist party. All students have to help collect signatures for the Stockholm Peace Appeal, and for the plebiscite against German rearmament...
...What is there to stop the Arabs the world over to collect as much as they please for their unfortunate brethren? God knows that a few only of the Arab kings and sheiks could easily outmatch the donations of the Jewish communities in this country or abroad...
There the Band, the mayor, the fire department and representatives from every group that could think up an excuse to be next to real, live lovelies, will greet the celluloid royalty, collect autographs, and let the troop move...