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...only do supposedly respectable people cheat on their taxes-federal, state and local-but supposedly respectable institutions help them do it. "Take someone who has just bought $1,000 worth of clothing," says Connecticut Revenue Commissioner Orest Dubno. "The store can ship a necktie somewhere out of state, so it can show a UPS address and receipt, and the buyer avoids the state sales tax. Actions such as these contribute to losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheating by the Millions | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

Marshal Georgy Zhukov, stalled in Tarnopol's ruins, struck on the northern flank. In a cold spring rain, one column crossed the bloated Ikwa to take the 950-year-old fortress of Dubno, in old Poland. Another column slithered up a hill to take the fortress of Krzemieniec. From both, roads now led straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Five Minutes to Midnight | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...doubletalk: "Some stupid Germans dare to ask why Hitler suddenly discovered that Stalin and Molotov were criminals, whereas only two years before we had signed a friendship pact with Russia. These Germans also remark that German propaganda should make no mention of the cruel bloodshed at LwÓw, Dubno, Vilna and Riga, maintaining that Germany is responsible-having given these territories ... to Russia. These regrettable Germans, with their uncrushable ideals of impartiality, unwittingly become solicitous for Churchill and we must deal energetically with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: News from Inside | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

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