Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month): As he has done every Sunday for two years, quiet, kindly. 61-year-old Fritz Mueller, German-born Seattle meat market owner, is delivering a roast of beef to a needy friend. Outside the apartment house, which substantial Citizen Mueller owns, he is stopped by two Federal Alcohol Tax Unit agents in plain clothes-short, swart Edward T. Kelly, 35, onetime Prohibition agent, and frail, bespectacled Leonard ("Relentless") Regan, 59, Croix de guerre War veteran, longtime Prohibition agent. Agent Kelly: "Where are you going with that package?" Mueller explains, asks why he is being followed. A scuffle takes place...
...Middle States Association of Colleges for graduating in 1935 a student who had failed to pass his final examinations. Writing this year in the Baltimore Sun on the history of the University of Maryland, of which St. John's was a part from 1907 to 1920, tart Tax payer Henry Louis Mencken thought the most impressive fact about St. John's was that it "receives $67,000 a year from the State, and every student on its roll costs the taxpayer...
...Next morning he was in Hyde Park to inspect a new firebreak in his woods, letting newshawks know that his 560-acre tract adjoining his mother's estate is not a gentleman farmer's operation run at a loss which he can deduct on his income tax return (as suggested by his district's Republican Congressman Hamilton Fish), but a timber operation (cordwood, fence posts, Christmas trees) on which he should realize a small profit. With him on this weekend was Author Emil Ludwig, biographer of the great, whose next subject is Franklin Roosevelt...
...shaver while recovering from dysentery in Alaska, used profits from his patents on pencil sharpeners to start making it in 1931. Living in Montreal for his health, he had been a Canadian citizen since 1935. Last fortnight he was named by the Joint Congressional Committee on Tax Evasion & Avoidance for having four personal holding companies in the Bahamas...
...which had sued the City of Milwaukee, its Sewerage Commission and several contractors for using its patented method of treating sewage and certain patented apparatus used for this purpose without license, Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger awarded profits and damages of $4,977,000, the equivalent of a $6 tax increase for each $1,000 of real and personal property value on' Milwaukee's assessment rolls. What made the award of national interest was that fortnight ago a favorable decision in a similar patent infringement suit against Chicago's Sanitary.District was upheld in the U. S. Circuit Court...