Word: collector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since the Federal Government adopted Financier Beardsley Ruml's ingenious invention of tax withholding back in 1943, the system has been about as unassailable as motherhood. Government officials love it, since paycheck deductions help disguise the size of the tax collector's take. Most taxpayers also approve of withholding as a relatively painless way of parting with their pelf. Only a non-politician of rare courage or naiveté-or both-would dare challenge it. Sure enough, a non-politician par excellence, California's Governor Ronald Reagan, did precisely that last week as he marked...
...After le petit Charles won the prize, Encounter was printed in 50 copies, and now one of them is enshrined in the French National Library. The youthful masterpiece lay buried there, but last week a columnist for Le Figaro learned of another rat-chewed copy, unearthed by a book collector, and brought it to the world's attention...
...start of a new baseball season is a trivia collector's delight. Consider these tidbits last week...
...commissioned by rock-'n'-roll bands to do dance-concert posters. The first one, for "The Jefferson Airplane" and "Big Brother and the Holding Company" concert at Fillmore, was printed in 300 copies. As fast as they went up on telephone poles, they were taken down as collector's items. An original today brings...
While filling out his own federal tax return before he turned to the job of supervising the scrutiny of 67 million others, Internal Revenue Commissioner Sheldon S. Cohen had a happy experience. Sheldon Cohen, tax collector, it turned out, owed Sheldon Cohen, tax payer, a $43 refund. Under the rates introduced last year, Collector Cohen will also owe rebates to many another tax payer this year, and the thought makes Government economists almost rapturous. They figure that all the returned money will help start the U.S. consumer spending again, and thereby get the economy out of its present stall...