Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most Frenchmen tax evasion is an instinct, and to some a career. When the tax collector comes to inspect his house, his books and his way of life for an estimate of his income, the practiced, big-time evader sends his new American car to the country, brings down his shabbiest furniture from the attic, gives the servants the day off, and greets the collector in a borrowed suit...
...chief collector of revenue for the Peruvian government leaned back in a chair in his oak-paneled office one morning last week, held up a slip of paper and chortled. "This," he remarked genially, "is the biggest private check ever paid in Peru." Then, turning businesslike, he handed a receipt to the lawyer who had just given Peru $3,000,000 on behalf of Aristotle Socrates Onassis, shipping, gambling and whaling tycoon...
...contesting Peru's 200-mile limit. But the laws and customs applying to sea limits are tangled and contradictory.* Three major international conferences are scheduled within the next two years to try to bring agreement on how much ocean a nation can claim. Meanwhile, Peru's Revenue Collector has happily entered his $3,000,000 windfall as "Unforeseen Income...
...Their purpose, mainly, was to carve objects for spirits to inhabit. Such artists never described, never analyzed, but only evoked. The spirits which African superstition demanded and African art evoked may be lonely as well as incomprehensible in Brooklyn, but they still weave powerful spells. It takes a dedicated collector to murmur, as one of the Brooklyn show's donors did last week: "These carvings are my friends." Brooklyn's Maternity Figure from the Congo can make a bronze by Henry Moore look limp-and comparatively friendly...
...leader who (in partnership with brother James Weldon Johnson and Song-and-Dance Man Bob Cole) flooded the nation's music halls with more than 500 songs in the golden heyday of vaudeville (Under the Bamboo Tree), composer of the "Negro national anthem," Lift Every Voice and Sing, collector and arranger of spirituals; in Manhattan...