Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rolls have also bulged, but here the difficulty was aggravated because Ohio's State Legislature, due to assemble in special session next week, squabbled last winter over relief funds, adjourned without solving the problem. Chicago's Relief Administration, which gets its funds from a city real-estate tax and the State Relief Commission, had spent its entire 1938 allowance from the city $5,404,000, by May 1 and no more State funds were due till June 1. Last week, Illinois Governor Henry Horner called his State Legislature into a special session to pry money from downstate legislators...
Just 27 minutes earlier, Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s Pilot Sidney Willey took off from Burbank in foggy weather, with instructions to deliver the brand-new 14 to Northwest Airlines at Las Vegas, Nev.- that Northwest might avoid paying California's 3% sales tax. The nine who died were not paying passengers but two Lockheed employes, two Northwest officials and one employe, two wives, two children. Principal post-mortem question mark was why Pilot Willey flew so low. Best guess: For some reason he decided to short-cut straight across the mountains and "fly contact''-in sight...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt's campaign for reciprocal taxation of State and Federal salaries and bonds was given sharp impetus today when the Supreme Court, in two far-reaching decisions, broadened the Federal government's taxing powers. The decisions, reached by a split of the Court affirmed the right of the Federal government to impose income taxes upon employees of the port of New York Authority, a joint instrumentality of the States of New York and New Jersey, and affirmed the government's right to tax admissions to football games and other athletic contests sponsored by state universities...
Egged on by his Socialist supporters. Premier Paul Emile Janson, who has headed Belgium's coalition Cabinet of Liberals, Socialists and Catholics for the past six months, last week asked for increased taxes to carry on his social reforms. Catholic members, loud in their demands for cuts in Government expenditures, promptly bolted M. Janson's coalition, joined their own bitterest enemies, the pro-Nazi Rexist party of Léon Degrelle, to vote against the tax proposals. M. Janson then chose to resign...
...Relaxed its tax laws to a certain extent as Congress passed the Doughton-Vinson Tax Bill...