Word: refundings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accompanied by one of his two svelte secretaries, who take down gags he thinks up at night, d.t.-totaling W. C. Fields ambled into Los Angeles court, tried to get a $20,000 refund on his 1937 Federal income tax. He found that the Government wanted $20,000 more. Badgered by revenuers about the elastic rubric he had created for deductible expenses, he had a time explaining a $20 item for milk. Puffed globular Taxpayer Fields: "I do not drink the liquid myself. I believe the writers. . . used it as a kind of a lubricant. . . . All I know about milk...
...drafted before registering on February 10 will have their registration fees returned. Any man drafted while enrolled in the School will receive a pro rata refund on tuition and other prepaid university charges...
...displays what B. C. suspects are the largest and smallest checks ever written in a business transaction: $208,581,250 to George Baker's First National Bank for part of the famous James Hill railroad financing; 1? to J. P.'s son Junius for a Federal tax refund...
...August the San Antonio subsidiary decided to refund a $16,500,000 bond issue at a lower (3½%) rate. To merchandise the issue, it contacted another Mellon family unit-Mellon Securities Corp...
Last week the Duquesne Club busily tried to prove to a Pittsburgh Federal judge that all of these activities added up to nothing more than the normal functions of a businessmen's luncheon club. Reason: the club wanted the Government to refund $75,000 worth of taxes it had collected from 1935 through 1938 because the Duquesne was a social organization...