Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heeb, much correspondence. I wish to say before he sailed for Spain in 1937. . . . He was working in Cincy, first job he had since graduating in 1931. He visited me on a Mother's Day in May, he sailed the following Wednesday from New York. But what I am trying to say is, of course he got odd jobs like in spring of the year, he would get what he could do here in Springfield cleaning wallpaper, washing down kitchens and porches. Whenever he could obtain work of that sort no matter how badly he needed clothes he would...
...slug the jury's forewoman, was dragged cursing from the courtroom. Judge Harry S. McDevitt ordered the arrest of Paul Petrillo (cousin) and the widow of a poisonee (two other widows were already in custody), and investigators began exhuming 70 bodies in graveyards of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York. Object: to prove that Petrillo during the past ten years had run an arsenic epidemic to collect upwards of $100,000 in insurance...
...allow taxpayers to deduct Federal taxes in figuring their State income tax. Bone, Nye & Co. proposed such wartime tax rates that many top-bracket taxpayers would find their total taxes all but swallowing their net income (but not exceeding it, as newspapers reported last week). In New York, for example (which has a State tax graduated up to 7% plus a 1% emergency tax), a $500,000-a-year man in a war year would have to pay Federal and State income taxes totaling $486,677. On $1,000,000, taxes would...
...suggesting reciprocal tax powers for the States), he was primarily seeking new sources of Federal revenue. The way to such a source was apparently opened last year by the Supreme Court's ruling that the U. S. might tax the pay of employes of the Port of New York Authority and similar quasi-public bodies (TIME, June...
...York's Attorney General retaliated for the Port Authority levy by trying to collect State income tax upon the Federal salary of an attorney for HOLC (TIME, Nov. 28). Utah's Attorney General tried to collect on the salary of an RFC attorney. In each case, the State's high court ruled against its Attorney General. No one was surprised, for 120 years ago, in a somewhat similar case, McCulloch v. Maryland, U. S. Chief Justice Marshall ruled against Maryland saying: "The power to tax involves the power to destroy." This week the U. S. Supreme Court...