Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...falling, the government was to buy up the grain when the prices began to fall and to sell it when prices rose. Instead of utilizing forced labor to carry out all the government's public works, he proposed to pay for this labor and levied an income tax to provide the treasury with the necessary funds...
...surprise he also discovered that among his employes were about 3,000 men who carried pistols-most of whom were sorry pistol shots. So in 1935 Mr. Morgenthau instituted year-round pistol practice, taught by Coast Guard cracks, for all armed agents of his Customs Bureau, Alcohol Tax Unit, Bureau of Narcotics, White House Police, Bureau of the Mint, Secret Service, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Uniformed Force of the Secret Service, Public Health Service. He put up a handsome silver Morgenthau Trophy and several other prizes for annual competition...
...most useful in getting Jews out of Germany. Already forbidden to take money with them, German Jews were recently forbidden by new Nazi decrees to take even their household goods and movable possessions. They were ordered to pay on such goods as jewelry, furs and furniture, an export tax of 100%. A further decree barred German dealers from bidding on goods auctioned by non-Aryans, and provided that if a Jew, having failed to sell goods at auction, offers them for sale a second time but fails to find a private buyer, they should automatically be forfeited to the State...
Because he liked to sleep late, Cinemactor Lee Tracy used to tip thoughtful cinema hands who saw to it that "I wasn't called to the studio when I wasn't needed." Because he considered such tipping a business expense, Mr. Tracy deducted $161 from his income tax. Because it did not care how late Mr. Tracy slept, the Internal Revenue Bureau last week refused to allow the deduction...
Also popular were six petitions proposing repeal or modification of the State's 3% sales tax...