Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last fortnight demoted from her $7,500 job as Collector of Revenue to a $5,000 job as State Supervisor of Public Funds. Last week she was suddenly fired. Few days later her husband, William Allen Tharpe, was dropped from his $5,000 job as secretary of the State Tax Commission. Other Grosjean relatives on the payroll trembled. Longster Grosjean had evidently offended Louisiana's reigning triumvirate
...Conference "Ding" Darling formed his National Wildlife Federation, a fish-flesh-&-fowl made up of all factions in the conservation movement. Since then the Pittman-Robertson Act has set aside the 10% excise tax on sporting arms & ammunition for wildlife propagation and research. Hunters and animal-lovers, unified at last, have pushed through many a national and State fish-&-game law. Last week, when the fourth annual North American Wildlife Conference opened in Detroit, the Federation was going strong...
Although optimism was the conference's keynote, speakers warned conservationists not to relax their efforts. Less than a third of the $3,250,000 excise tax, for example, has been passed along by Congress to the State Governments, which have the spending of it.† Other pressing problems: some of the most desirable species of fish (sturgeon, Lake Erie cisco, bloater, black & blue fins) are now extinct in the Great Lakes, and the famed Lake Superior whitefish are fast disappearing; municipalities often have to be forced to stop pollution of streams; the increasing number of hunters...
Written in simple you-style by a certified public accountant, Your Income Tax treats the befuddled lower-bracket taxee very much as a psychiatrist would handle an alarmed patient. The 120 pages of text lay every bugaboo from Who-Must-File-a-Return to What-to-do-if-They-Get-After-You. You can hardly go wrong unintentionally. Author Lasser warns you sternly not to try it intentionally, then proceeds to list hundreds of legal exemptions and deductions that you may not have thought of before. Samples...
...deduct National Guard fees, graft money, expenses of lobbying for legalized horse racing, contributions to birth-control or anti-saloon leagues; nor can you deduct money spent in preparation of your income tax return...