Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed by such "advanced" writers as Georg Kaiser, Bernhard Kellerman, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann. Inverse Income Tax. Signor Mattia Battistini, tolerably good Italian baritone, appealed to the tax collector of Duisburg (Rhineland) last week, to be classified as a "well-known singer," and deposed under oath: "My successful career as a singer has extended over 50 years...
Shrewd, canny, hard to wheedle, the tax collector of Duisburg yielded only after much persuasion. From "ordinary singers" he is empowered to collect a 20% municipal tax on concert receipts; from "well-known singers" he may collect only...
...sixth captured by collectors in the past 35 years. The first shoebill stork ever brought to the U. S. arrived last month from upper Egypt (TiME, Oct. 18) in charge of his captor, Collector George H. Bistany, and was to tour the country's zoos...
...order that her son might live under the Austrian flag. In that gaunt house Von Ferrari kept the only copy of the Boscawen (N. H.) stamp, the Lockport (N. Y.) stamp, and one of the Hawaiian "missionary"* stamps. These Mr. Hind, now admittedly the world's foremost collector, bought for $12,000, $8,500 and $14,500 respectively...
Near the stamps of Collector Hind the lights of the Grand Central Palace shone on a stamp with George Washington's face on it (an old New York issue, one of the rarest stamps in the world); the "St. Louis" 20-cent stamp with two bears holding a shield; the one-franc tête bêche stamps (printed upside down); the freak inverted 24-cent U. S. airplane stamps (only one sheet of them got into circulation) and many another scrap of paper that it would be bad luck to throw away if found on some...