Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of the N. J. State Board of Control of Institutions & Agencies, to help supervise the State's 21 penal institutions, hospitals and State homes. In prospect for briskly confident Mr. Cromwell, who told a Congressional committee last year that all income, gift, estate and corporation taxes should be repealed in favor of a manufacturers' sales tax: membership on a New Jersey tax-revision committee...
Taxation, The Court made three significant loopholes in its ancient doctrine that the Government cannot tax the '"instrumentalities" of a sovereign State. The Justices ruled that the Federal Government could collect taxes on: 1) the profits of operators leasing oil lands from the State of California, 2) the salaries of employes of the Port of New York Authority, 3) Football-receipts at the University of Georgia and the Georgia School of Technology...
...soon after Homer Stille Cummings became Attorney General, his department again started gunning for Alcoa. As a private lawyer, Mr. Cummings had lost a court skirmish with the aluminum company; hardly had he moved to Washington when the Government accused old Andrew Mellon of tax evasion, his chief company of monopoly. Because his. R. B. Mellon's and Chairman Davis' families own 51% of Alcoa's stock, Andrew Mellon, though dead now, was listed as a defendant last week. Actual suit in this anti-trust case was brought by Homer Cummings more than a year ago (TIME...
...tax returns. Empire Gas & Electric Co., subsidiary of shrewd, roly-poly Howard Colwell Hopson's Associated Gas & Electric Co., took a $38,543 deduction for the cost of lobbying against the Public Utility Holding Company Act. With some heat, the Internal Revenue Bureau rejected the claim. Last week in Washington, Empire Gas took it up with the Board of Tax Appeals, asked why lobbying should not be considered a "necessary business expense...
...Running to 795 pages, told in 104 cinematic scenes, House of All Nations takes for its pot the luxurious Paris private bank of Bertillon & Cie., described by its head, elegant, cynical, lucky, grandly deluded Jules Bertillon, as "a rich man's club: a gambling, deposit and tax-evasion bank ... a society dump" doing business in "grapples, clinches, blackmails, plunges, lucky breaks, long odds, lowdowns, big gambles, and secret bookkeeping...