Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...richest men in the world; 2) by judicious purchases, he has put together one of the finest collections of old masters in existence (TIME, Feb. 14,1949). Neither of his distinctions was achieved without a knowledge of the ground rules. Last week, to get some ground rules changed, Collector Gulbenkian had the busy U.S. Congress amending the Internal Revenue Code for him. The change would also work out for the benefit of U.S. art lovers...
Meanwhile, Hsia Tou-yin, warlord of Wu's native Hupeh province, had given Wu a job as tax collector. Wu went to work in Hankow, "the Chicago of China," and within six months had balanced Hankow's municipal budget. This achieve ment attracted Chiang Kai-shek's interested attention. In 1932 Chiang appointed the 28-year-old Wu mayor of Hankow...
...Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers, the United Office and Professional Workers, the United Electrical Workers, the Marine Cooks and Stewards-canvassed busily for "peace" signatures. U.A.W. Communists in the big Ford local circulated petitions on the assembly lines. At the Kaiser-Frazer plant, angry U.A.W. unionists flung one peace collector out bodily. Earnest youths turned up on campuses in New York, Chicago and Austin, Texas. In some states, impatient cops, out of sheer exasperation, arrested canvassers on charges of disorderly conduct...
...20th Century taxpayers, one of the world's least esthetic individuals is the faceless Moloch known to them only by his title, the Collector of Internal Revenue. But officials in the art-loving, 13th Century Italian republic of Siena were tax collectors of a different sort. When the camarlingo (chamberlain) completed his six months' term, he had his parchment records bound between two wooden panels, and commissioned some of the republic's most eminent artists to decorate the covers with tempera paintings. In Florence's Strozzina Gallery last week, some examples of such fancied-up account...
Once a year, and twice every fourth year when there were municipal elections, collectors would circulate among the 8,000 or 9,000 lucky people who made their living off Frank Hague's Jersey City and Hudson County payrolls. Each public employee would hand the collector an amount approximating 3% of his annual salary. As that day approached, Jersey City banks and small loan companies did a big loan business...