Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice President Garner's last acts before going off fishing last week was to name a crew of Senators to conduct, with colleagues from the House, the great fishing expedition called for by President Roosevelt in his message about millionaire tax-evaders (TIME, June 14). That this expedition, beginning this week, would not greatly enliven Washington's hottest weeks and not give the newspapers something very much better to talk about than strikes and the President's defeat on the Court Plan, observers suspected when Mr. Garner put Mississippi's urbane Pat Harrison at the head...
...venerable law firm of Hughes, Schurman & Dwight. This is the firm from which the Chief Justice of the U. S. resigned to mount the high bench in 1930. The present senior partner, Charles Evans Hughes Jr., announced the formation of Hughes, Richards, Hubbard & Ewing. His former partner, the business & tax expert of the old firm, announced under the name of Dwight, Harris, Koegel & Caskey...
Manhattan and Washington quickly guessed what had happened. Lawyer Dwight's name was, rightly or wrongly, down on Secretary Morgenthau's list as a practitioner of income tax devices such as the White House was now condemning. However remotely, Partner Hughes's father's name might now be linked with that of a specimen in the Congressional fishbowl. Instant dissolution of this link was the only thing possible for Mr. Hughes...
...prepared to sign his pet bill was from the cinema chains, which are included on the same basis as chain stores. Said a spokesman from Warner Brothers, biggest chain in the State (180 theatres) : "We are submitting gracefully. Everybody's sort of getting used to this tax business. I guess we ought to be happy we aren't living in Germany or Russia...
...Robinson's nephew William Park took over ASCO's presidency last spring when the tax fight was growing hot. He went to Philadelphia from a Michigan farm, started to work for his uncle at 20. He has been working in the same spot ever since, and though the building has changed the atmosphere has not. ASCO's general offices are as cluttered as a warehouse. President Park works in shirt sleeves behind a partition, washes his hands like the rest of the staff at an open sink in the corner. Pay telephones are provided for visitors. Placards...