Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were La Follette advisers and big, bluff Mr. Ward himself. Mr. Ward got his business start in Leavenworth where, serving a term for narcotic law violations, he fell in with President Herbert Huse Bigelow of Minneapolis' rich Brown & Bigelow (advertising specialties), who was serving a term for income tax evasion. When Mr. Ward was released, Mr. Bigelow, who thought him "good clay worthy of molding," gave him a letter to Brown & Bigelow that got him a job shoveling manure on one of the company farms. By the time Mr. Bigelow was released, Mr. Ward had worked...
Reason for the new ruling, it was explained, was that the federal tax inspectors have begun to take an unusual interest in the House dances, and were prepared to levy taxes on the income from the parties unless it could be shown that any profit made on the dances was turned over to the university to be used "for educational purposes...
...dance committee chairmen must now make out a tax exemption blank before each dance and file it with the Department of Internal Revenue. The exemption is granted because any profit made is to be turned over to "an educational institution," namely, Harvard University...
...pennies available in a town or city, forcing business men and bankers to be handicapped by their scarcity. (R. P. I. students collected 250,000.) Second, flood the town with pennies by paying 25 per cent of all bills in pennies, the 25 per cent representing the estimated hidden tax in every item purchased. Follow this picture-and-paragraph story of the TaxCENTinels...
...sword-swishing, bow-twanging technicolor attempt to foreshorten the popular episodes of the Soo-year-old saga into the perspective of a single connected story. Robin Hood 1938 makes the last of Richard I's crusading years its period, draws a bead on Regent Prince John's tax oppression that should bring a nod from every liberty-loving Britisher who can afford the admission price after his 27½% income tax is paid. In the course of his swashbuckling defense of human rights. Robin saves Much, the Miller's son (Herbert Mundin). from a poaching charge; fights...