Word: assessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During Curley's term, however, there existed an "abatements racket," whereby certain property owners were given rebates on their assessment by dubious re-evaluations. If a landlord wishes to get an abatement on his assessment in Boston, he applies to the City Assessor's office and pays the fee demanded. Whether or not the abatement is granted, that fee is attached to the property owner's assessment from that year on; the money apparently goes directly to the Board of Assessors each year. That's one sources of excess intake in the Assessment Division. But, there is a further explicitly...
...known men, Dr. Roberto Antonio Ares, 35, and Dr. Alfredo Gomez Morales, 39, were made Secretaries of Economy and Finance, respectively. Unlike Miranda, both believed that the world market was a buyers' & sellers' market, not a sellers' market only. Miranda got the formal title of "technical assessor to the chief of state...
...Pawnee (Oklahoma) Chief was fat with political ads. Neal Vaughan (farmer, good road man) was running for County Commissioner. Amos Teter (lived in Pawnee County most of his life) was a candidate for Assessor. Roy L. Owens (common sense, clean personal character) was up for re-election as sheriff. But except for the hazy looking cuts of THESE CAPABLE MEN the Chief looked about the same as usual. The big Page One story was headed: BLANCHARDS SELL 849 TURKEYS...
Capital or Fair? Residents of towns around the area couldn't quite decide what to think about being neighbors with UNO. Snapped the Greenwich, Conn, assessor: "We're going to be like living in the middle of the World's Fair." One Nick Trerotola, a garage owner, decided, somberly: "It may change my whole career." A Republican politician named Harry J. Hunter looked at it from UNO's point of view. "They'll have to pay too much money . . . Westchester is the wealthiest county in the world. They're not being economic...
...Salt Lake City, a woman trying to move a large radio through a doorway saw a stranger in the hall, asked him to help her, explained she was getting the radio out of sight before the tax assessor came. She was too late; he was the assessor...