Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue is more simply stated than solved. From the University standpoint, educational institutions are traditionally tax-exempt. Harvard has brought great prestige and considerable purchasing power to Cambridge, and while admittedly removing large pieces of property from the city tax list, has raised the value of adjoining real estate...
What City Hall sees is a vast tax-exempt "inland Empire," assessed at $164,298,020, more than the total taxable value of Cambridge, White the city provides police, fire, and health protection, ever since the opening of the subway much of Harvard's, purchasing power, once a Cambridge monopoly, has been shifted to Boston. Moreover, it has been charged that the House system has cut into-the local restaurant and boarding-house trade...
University Not Wholly Tax-Free...
...Berlin method: to require each day the names of 100 Berlin Jews who will leave Germany within the next fortnight. When the 100 have paid their taxes, their share in the $400,000,000 vom Rath fine, the capital flight tax, contributed to the fund for the support of aged Jews and sold their jewelry to the State at the State's own price, they will be given passports marked with a large "J" (for Jew), told to get their visas. For those who don't get out on time, "dire penalties" will be provided...
...reasonable" Saint Gandhi and his followers but with the exacting, "unreasonable" Mr. Bose. And among the things Mr. Bose is known to have in mind to help "persuade" the British in India to give the country more self-rule are civil disobedience, a general strike, no-rent and no-tax campaigns...