Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine years since Old Tom went to prison for cheating the income-tax collector of $443,550, his machine has had only one victory worth crowing about: its defeat, demanded by Harry Truman, of Congressman Roger C. Slaughter in 1946's Democratic primary. A fortnight ago, oldtime Pendergastlies celebrated a minor victory: eight Pendergast machinemen were acquitted of vote-fraud charges (on which the Star had gathered the evidence) growing out of the 1946 primary. In a year of trials, only four of 39 accused had been pronounced guilty...
...punitive expedition" went fascist-hunting, ran into a farmer with a gun who killed two of the Communists; at Savona, a shoeshine man tossed a hand grenade into a crowd of churchgoers, killed an old woman; on Pantelleria Island, when a Communist-led crowd stormed the tax collector's office, police killed three men in the melee. Police found numerous Communist arms caches...
Tenth Commandment. In Little Rock, Ark., Collector of Internal Revenue Horace E. Thompson straightened out the case of a bachelor who had been claiming his neighbor's wife & children as tax exemptions...
...Collector's Item. In Little Rock, Forrest City and Marianna, Ark. and in Kosciusko, Miss., police searched for the pipe-organ "repairmen" who had stolen pipes from organs in each of the four towns...
Call Northside 777. Joe was grateful, but a little bewildered. His wife had divorced him (with his consent) and remarried while he was in prison, and he often went to see her and his 14-year-old son. He worked in various jobs as a sales correspondent, collector and bookkeeper. A movie company paid him a meager $1,000 to make his story into a picture, Call Northside 777 (see CINEMA...