Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gobbledygook of tax forms, it has added some more, among which that of schedule J, "Exclusion and credit for dividends received from qualifying domestic (U.S.) corporations,"is a beaut. This isn't a tax form. It's a maze that keeps you jumping from page to page, column to column (even double columns), line to line and back again. The government ought to pay prizes for solving it. This year the Ides of March becomes the Ides of April; the tax laws allow 30 more days for filing your tax. It isn't enough. If you have...
Last week L'Unīta, the party journal, published a simple, two-column box announcing that Togliatti had been confirmed as secretary general, and Comrade Luigi Longo as deputy secretary general. At the bottom of the list, after describing all other members of the national politburo, came this line: "Comrade Pietro...
...Joseph F. Finnegan, 51, was nominated for director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (TIME, Nov. 22), succeeding Whitley P. McCoy, who resigned. A graduate of Columbia ('28) and Fordham Law School ('31), Finnegan helped pay his way through school by writing a question-and-answer column for investors in the Wall Street Journal and working on Brooklyn piers as a cargo checker. After a three-year stint as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, he joined a private law firm, and in 1948 hung out his own shingle. As background...
...campaign by Light Heavyweight champion Archie Moore for a crack at Rocky Mareiano's heavyweight crown took the form today of a want ad in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch personal column, asking "information" on how to get the fight...
...invested in Fox's Keta Gas & Oil Corp. In the last year the stock has dropped from 15 to 3½. Even Fox himself shows signs of depression about his first erratic excursion into journalism. Last week he announced he will no longer write his daily financial column (signed "Washington Waters"). But the real depths of his troubles were spread in the record last week at a Federal Communications Commission hearing in Washington...