Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sentenced last week by a federal court in Tacoma, Wash, on six counts of income tax evasion: Dave Beck, 64, longtime Teamsters Union president, nudged-from office by Jimmy Hoffa in 1957, and in trouble with the law ever since. Sentence: five years' imprisonment and $60,000 fine, plus $10,961.52 in court costs. Said U.S. District Judge George H. Boldt in a lecture from the bench: "Mr. Beck plundered his union, his intimate associates, and, in some instances, his personal friends-most of whom quite readily would have given him anything he asked...
...says. "I don't necessarily want to save him from it." Harry devotes some time to Negro affairs (the N.A.A.C.P., the Wiltwyck School for Boys, the Rev. Martin Luther King's Montgomery Improvement Association), gives 20% of his income to his partly tax-exempt Belafonte Foundation of Music and Arts, designed to "get young people with talent out from under the hammer...
...British journalism: assistant editor of Lord Rothermere's Sunday Dispatch (circ. 1,834,859). The Sunday Dispatch won Anne away from Beaverbrook with the fanciest offer ever made an English newswoman, including a pale blue car, an endowment policy that will put away some of her salary tax-free for old age, a fat expense account, and well over $20,000 a year...
...TAX INCREASES on aviation fuels and gasoline, as asked by the Administration, stand no chance of being passed by Congress...
Died. Daniel Alden Reed, 83, Old Guard Republican Congressman from upstate New York, senior member and onetime chairman (1953-54) of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, foe of foreign aid, believer in high tariffs and low taxes; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Dan Reed was a direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden and, in the Puritan tradition, a self-reliant conservative. Elected to the House in 1918, he was undefeated in 21 consecutive biennial elections, was topped in seniority only by Carl Vinson of Georgia (1914) and Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas...