Word: lockwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read your item about Mrs. Margaret Lockwood, [who protested the Internal Revenue Service's attachment of her husband's paycheck by camping with her two infants at the tax collector's desk-Sept. 7]. We had similar troubles with the Internal Revenue Service. They attached my husband's check, and it was either pay up or lose his job. The ironic part of the whole deal was that it was their mistake, and a five-year-old error, at that. Hurrah for Mrs. Lockwood...
...heartwarming display of courage in the face of almost insurmountable odds, an inspiration to every "housebroken," intimidated victim of bureaucracy's unbending and arrogant illogic: for Woman of the Year, who else but Margaret Ann Lockwood...
...children did the rest. Daughter René, dipping into a box of raisins, managed to spill about half of them on the tax office floor, happily trampled them into a gooey mess. Son Robbie wet his diapers, and Margaret Lockwood calmly changed them, draping the reeking castoffs over a chair...
When lunchtime came, Mrs. Lockwood opened jars of baby food, arranged them on a clerk's desk. The children dug in greedily, splattered strained apricots and sweet potatoes generously over a stack of tax reports. Robbie started to cough on his food, and a nerve-shredded clerk told Mrs. Lockwood not to let him choke. "Mind your own business," she snapped. "It's my baby, not yours...
Next, René found a wastebasket and enthusiastically overturned it. A clerk spoke sharply to her and she started to scream. Baby Robbie thereupon joined in lustily. At last, after 4½ hours, the harried tax collector surrendered. Margaret Lockwood was told that her husband's check had been released, and she could pick it up at his office. Bob Lockwood would have another chance to talk over the claims against him; even if back taxes were actually due, they could be paid in small installments. And across the U.S., tax collectors braced themselves for a tide of determined...