Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children did the rest. Daughter René, dipping into a box of raisins, managed to spill about half of them on the tax office floor, happily trampled them into a gooey mess. Son Robbie wet his diapers, and Margaret Lockwood calmly changed them, draping the reeking castoffs over a chair...
When lunchtime came, Mrs. Lockwood opened jars of baby food, arranged them on a clerk's desk. The children dug in greedily, splattered strained apricots and sweet potatoes generously over a stack of tax reports. Robbie started to cough on his food, and a nerve-shredded clerk told Mrs. Lockwood not to let him choke. "Mind your own business," she snapped. "It's my baby, not yours...
Next, René found a wastebasket and enthusiastically overturned it. A clerk spoke sharply to her and she started to scream. Baby Robbie thereupon joined in lustily. At last, after 4½ hours, the harried tax collector surrendered. Margaret Lockwood was told that her husband's check had been released, and she could pick it up at his office. Bob Lockwood would have another chance to talk over the claims against him; even if back taxes were actually due, they could be paid in small installments. And across the U.S., tax collectors braced themselves for a tide of determined...
...Association Convention at Miami Beach (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) with a "special seminar." His lecturer: "Professor O'Brien," a Buddha-faced little man in a $285 suit, who solemnly told the 100-odd lawyers present: "I probably got more courtroom experience than any of you guys." Expounding on income tax, O'Brien advised the barristers that the only way to come out even is to "borrow money from your friends." As other West Coast lawyers snickered and A.B.A. big shots fumed, the word spread: Gagster Belli's tax expert was Mobster Mickey ("I'm rehabilitated") Cohen, whose...
...private psychologist. Over the country, many youngsters who miss the cutoff point attend private schools for a year and then go public in the second grade. In Houston, where the whole matter has been put on a cash basis, eager mothers gladly shell out a special head tax of $90 to break the cutoff rule...