Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Voters in Virginia and Texas put another dent in the rusty Southern argument that civil rights could best be guaranteed by letting the states do their own housecleaning. Virginia's proposal to repeal the poll tax was defeated by a majority of nearly four to one. But many organizations which wanted to abolish the tax-including church, labor, Negro and veterans' groups-fought the Byrd machine's proposal as complicated and dishonest. They feared that the blank-check authority it granted the Byrd-controlled legislature to set up new voting requirements might prove more harmful to their...
...fortune of 500 million soles (more than $32 million at the free exchange rate). Her maternal grandfather, Eulogio Fernandini, had a finger in almost every financial pie in the country and was known to his contemporaries as an ardent collector-of gold coins. After his death in 1947, tax assessors laboriously counted their way through two large antique coffers full of gold pounds and two-sol quintos, reckoned the total at 30 million soles (nearly...
...Harvard-Yale game of 1891 produced America's first football ticket scandal. There were no laws against scalping and there was no such thing as a federal admission tax, but it was strictly against the law to counterfeit tickets, which is exactly what a New York speculator did before his activities were halted by a gendarme...
Educational Noodles. In cases where companies lease their properties and still continue to operate as taxpaying private ventures, the Government has not interfered so far. But it has already ordered the Mueller Co. to pay up its income taxes. There is nothing in making noodles, the Government contends, that is "charitable, scientific, literary or educational" (the statutory requirement for tax exemption for colleges). A court test, brought by Mueller, has not been decided. If the Government wins the case, it will slap a bill for back taxes on all the company's profits since the sale, and presumably...
...Among the deals: Manhattan's Western Union Bldg. to Omaha's tax-exempt Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society, for $12.5 million; Philadelphia's Lit Bros. store to the University of Pennsylvania, for $3,000,000. Wheat Farmer Thomas D. Campbell's huge Montana ranch to the U.S. Wheat Corp. of Omaha, owned by a Catholic foundation...