Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to pay federal taxes," said Meyers smugly. "I live in Virginia...
...followed Bert's advice. He opened an office in Washington, but when he got married he bought a house across the Potomac in Arlington County. He paid Virginia state income taxes, and, in fact, eventually became a good friend of the state tax collector. When one of his daughters grew up and began filing federal income tax returns, he helped her fill them out. But for 30 years, Chiropractor Meyers never paid a cent of federal income tax himself. Bert's misinformation had "cocooned" in his mind...
...People in Virginia have to pay federal income taxes too," the agent assured him. For a dreadful moment it was so quiet in the office that you could hear a tendon snap. "You're kidding," gasped the doc. But everyone thought the doc was kidding. Last week in federal court, even his own lawyer suggested that his story was "fantastic." The judge cried "Preposterous!" and fined...
Died. Lewis P. ("Lew") Reese, 59, granite-jawed Scio, Ohio (pop. 1,152) pottery manufacturer who turned an abandoned mill into a multimillion-dollar small-town bonanza; of a kidney ailment; in Pittsburgh. A West Virginia pottery worker, Reese scraped together $8,000 in 1932 to buy Scio's plant, mass-produced 5? teacups, saucers and plates to become the world's biggest producer of whiteware...
Hampden-Sydney College (Virginia...