Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After windy debate and eight time-consuming roll calls by the Southern bloc, the House passed the anti-poll tax bill last week by a vote of 273 to 116. The House had approved it before-in 1942, 1943, 1945 and 1947-only to have it die in the Senate. The seven poll tax states would be required to eliminate the tax in all federal elections. Southern Senators vowed to filibuster it to death again...
Like two other able arms of the U.S. Government, the Treasury's T-men (who pursue counterfeiters, tax dodgers and dope peddlers) and the Post Office Inspectors, the FBI usually "gets" its man before it grabs him. In some 9,000 cases last year, the FBI got 97.2% convictions. Certainly, in other hands, the FBI was a potential danger to every free citizen. It had not proved to be so in the hands of John Edgar Hoover...
Pendergast and Philadelphia's Republican Publisher Moses Annenberg for income-tax evasion. He was looking around for other victims in a field rich with game, when Franklin Roosevelt elevated him to the place left vacant by the death of the only Catholic on the Supreme Court, crusty old Pierce Butler...
...familiar warning signals of an economic smashup. But in this "transition period," he admitted, there was no longer any point to the whole kit & caboodle of anti-inflation controls which he had been demanding. Nor was there, he acknowledged, any longer a possibility of the $4 billion tax increase he had asked for last January...
...Western ambassador for being effeminately clean-shaven, the envoy pertly retorted: "Had my royal master measured wisdom by the beard, he would have sent a goat." Peter, who had a marked tendency to kowtow before degenerate Western ways, was so impressed by this remark that he levied a tax on all Russian beards...