Word: pay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill to make all State & municipal employes pay income tax to the Federal Government was passed last month by the House. In the Senate, whose members did not relish inflicting pain on their political machines back home, it faced a fight. Government lawyers this week declared that the Supreme Court's new ruling cut both ways, rendered such legislation unnecessary except to relieve State & municipal employes from levies retroactive to 1926. To take advantage of the new ruling, however, most States will have to amend their income tax laws, which specifically exempt Federal salaries. Especially prompt to act should...
...Jimmy Hines had a sizable brokerage account. In 1929 a bank lent her $88,487.70 to pay off the brokers, took over her securities. Between 1929 and 1937, her bankers received $62,000 from unidentified sources for Mrs. Hines. Only once did Jimmy Hines have a brokerage account in his own name. Then he gambled in $38,000 worth of Johns-Manville stock, lost $5,458 in twelve days, settled with the brokers for $4,000. He and some friends borrowed $132,559.59 from Lawyer Max Steuer to buy 850 shares of stock in the New York Giants (baseball...
...District Attorney proved that the numbers racketeers did pay him $500 to $1,000 a week for protection from 1933 to 1935. The writers of the probation report paid him this tribute...
...Reich will pay for the products in barter marks, manufactured goods and recently acquired Czecho-Slovak arms (which Rumania will probably never be able to use and which Germany may later grab anyway...
...plan was both complicated and risky. In its simplest terms it was intended to work as follows: The Government will issue fiat money (paper without gold or silver backing) to pay the Heinkel works, say, for airplanes. Next year when Heinkel comes to pay corporation taxes, it pays not in cash but in the fiat certificates. Meanwhile Heinkel may, if it wishes, use the certificates to help pay for purchases of Duralumin, rivets, engine parts. In transactions other than tax payments certificates may never exceed 40% of the purchase price, the rest to be paid in cash. What the plan...