Word: collector
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphians knew that after the exhibitions these paintings went right back into the Museum's storage rooms as part of a $1,000,000 collection of paintings shipped from Paris last year to be held there on "indefinite loan." The lender, still anonymous, is not the only European collector who has recently found it expedient to store his art elsewhere. Last week the Pennsylvania Museum placed on exhibition some 50 late Renoirs never before seen in the U. S., lent for indefinite storage by rich, 34-year-old Philippe Gangnat of Paris...
...customs collector in Davao, main town of Mindanao Island, reported last week that a number of unidentified vessels had anchored in Davao Gulf-unidentified because the nearest U. S. naval base with cutters or airplanes capable of investigating was on Manila Bay, 600 miles away. Wildly diverse reports filtered through to Manila, disagreeing as to the size and number of ships, never as to their nationality. This was because there are in Davao more than 20,000 prosperous Japanese, who control the Philippine hemp industry, own 63,800 acres under legal leases, even more illegally. At week...
...seems reasonable, field agents inspect questionable records, interview the suspected offender, notify the proper tax division (income, estate, gift, etc.). When a suspect is found guilty and forced to pay up, the informer fills out a neatly printed claim blank and passes it on for certification by a tax collector, the U. S. District Attorney, the Revenue Commissioner. His reward, which varies with the value of his information and the amount of help he gives in recovering the taxes, averages 2½% of the sum recovered...
Ever since his beginnings in a Cedar Rapids parsonage, Merlin Hall Aylesworth has been a salesman. Out of University of Denver Law School, he exercised his powers of persuasion so effectively that he became an almost miraculous collector of bad bills for doctors. Soon he sold himself for the job of chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. In four years he was an executive of the Utah Power & Light Co. He sold electricity so suavely that in 1919 he was made managing director of National Electric Light Association, powerful utilities propaganda agency. In 1926 he stepped into the presidency...
...violently syncopated pianism, which according to contemporaries "could be heard for blocks around," was regarded as a passing fad. But it caught on so rapidly that by 1897 Harney was encouraged to publish his Rag-Time Instructor, first pedagogical treatise on the art of ragtime, now a collector's item...