Word: collector
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After some delay the President called to the Palais d'Elysee M. Frederic François-Marsal, ex-Minister of Finance, collector of old china, soldier, sportsman, and requested him to form a Cabinet. M. François-Marsal accepted the task and formed a Ministry...
...this has been readily avoided. All the stock in the Ford Motor Co. is owned by Henry Ford and his son. Instead of declaring dividends on it in proportion to what the earnings would justify-in which case their incomes would be heavily levied upon by the income tax collector-net income was almost entirely plowed back into the property each year, or used to acquire new plants and establishments of all sorts. On corporate net income the tax rate was only 12½%, while the surtax rate would have been 50% on both the Fords' incomes had these...
...ease and rapidity with which an American collector of antiques can rush to Europe and squander fifteen hundred thousand dollars for trifles of remote historical interest strikes the mere proletarian with a sense of awe. Such a performance is in itself history--or it would have been, if the headline under which the newspaper report of the latest expatiation appeared. "Resenbach Bae's With Napoleon's White Breeches," were not more suggestive of fast work by a second-story man than of dignified collecting. One visualizaes, somehow, not a fine old antiquarian, displaying his acquisitions with solemn pride...
...grounds that it might incriminate him. Another witness had declared that Mr. Chase had tried to induce a Cleveland man to say he had lent Mr. Fall the now notorious $100,000. The Senate unanimously passed a resolution, suggesting that the House start impeachment proceedings against Chase, who is Collector of Customs at El Paso. Chase submitted his resignation to Secretary Mellon who accepted it on the following...
Announcement was made yesterday that Phillips Brooks House will hold its annual spring old clothes drive from April 7 through April 10. A. P. Sharpe '25 is to act as head collector...