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...Horace ("Hod") Tabor, a shambling boor and former storekeeper who had grubstaked two starving prospectors to $64.75 worth of provisions. Only ten months later, Hod wound up with the Matchless and other prodigious silver mines that were to earn him as much as $4 million a year - in taxless 1880 dollars. After his first meeting with Baby, who had judiciously selected him as her private grubstake, Hardrock Horace bought off her current protector and made Baby Doe his mistress. No matter that he was 53 and she 23, or that he was married. It was conglomeration at first sight. After...
...income-taxless 1901, Andrew Carnegie sold his vast steel empire...
...century U.S. estate taxes: $253,869.44-less than 0.2% of the amount that Astor could not take with him. How did Testator Astor do it? It seemed, under New York State and federal inheritance statutes, kind of easy: he left about $61.5 million to his wife Brooke as a taxless widow's mite. $60.5 million to the Vincent Astor Foundation and sev eral much smaller charities (also untaxable). Some $5,000,000 went to pay o"f debts, all taxes, administration expenses and lawyers. All that was left to tax was some $775,000, out of which the federal...
...afraid if I waive immunity they will be bothered in the future by charges for little things. . . ." Finally he changed his mind again and agreed to a trial by jury. A mob of long unpaid, tatterdemalion Chicago schoolteachers invaded big Chicago banks to demand cooperation between banks and the taxless school board. Melvin Alvah Traylor put them off with an "I agree with you." Charles Gates Dawes cowed them with: "To hell with trouble makers...
...Colby's Chamber of Commerce motto used to be: "Colby, The Taxless Town." Now it is: "Colby, The Home of Marion Talley...
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