Word: collector
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Denis W. Delaney. onetime collector for the Massachusetts District, after pleading guilty to one count of accepting bribes, served nine months in jail...
...James G. Smyth, ousted collector for Northern California, acquitted on charges of tax fraud...
Still pending is the Government's per jury case against Nunan, charging that he lied to the grand jury that indicted him for evasion after he resigned as the nation's No. 1 tax collector. Since Nu nan's heyday in Washington, 213 other Internal Revenue employees and friends have been indicted, and more than 100 have been convicted of crimes ranging from perjury to bribery. Among the key cases...
...Dichter compiled an impressive catalogue of old American sheet music, began selling it to collectors. Then he decided that reprints of the sheet music would find a greater audience. His first big publication was an edition of delicate melodies titled Seven Songs for the Harpsichord, by Musician:Politico Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791). Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, had sent his work to George Washington, received a polite acknowledgement from the President: ". . . what alas! can I do to support it? I can neither sing one of the songs nor raise a note on any instrument to convince...
General Quarters. In El Paso, after deputy tax assessors had been bitten more than 20 times by dogs, Tax Collector Joseph Prudot ordered them to make their rounds armed with water pistols and ammonia...