Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...novel solution to this problem: abolish local real-estate taxes altogether. Property owners would pay just an income tax, and that to the Federal Government. Even cautious politicos like LaGuardia have been intrigued. Last winter he told the New York Board of Trade he wanted just one big tax collector -the Federal Government. The taxes it collected from each city and State would be allocated back to them on a kind of credit system. Workable or not, this kind of arrangement would do two things: it would stop the tax race between the cities and the Federal Government...
Harvard had been knocking on the door all afternoon and getting repulsed just as consistently--like a bill collector. Brown had been using almost as many different unorthodox defenses as Harvard, and its defense had stiffened whenever the Harlowmen advanced into scoring territory. Finally in the fourth quarter Charley Spreyer touched off a 63 yard voyage with a brilliant 12-yard touchdown drive around his own right end. Blocking was negligible after he crossed the line of scrimmage, and that made it necessary for him to wrench himself loose from at least three would-be Brown tacklers...
...never would have had a swing craze, and you and I would have to be satisfied with Carmen Lombardo singing the St. Louis Blues, hot dog. Consequently I'd like to mention several of Benny's early recordings that you'd do well to buy before they become collector's items...
...Raphael Madonna (one of the few genuine ones in the U. S.) will be housed in galleries designated as Widener rooms, adjoining the sections set aside by the National Gallery for each school of painting. Some of the works may stay at Lynnewood Hall while Joe Widener is alive. Collector Widener referred questioners to young (45) P. A. B.'s family history, Without Drums, to be published this week (G. P. Putnam's Sons; $3). Says...
...Collector Di Ghilini claims to own $250,000 worth of paintings and art objects, including a Titian, a Gainsborough, a Rubens, a Romney, which he plans to exhibit in Manhattan this winter. Last summer Dr. Di Ghilini beheld and coveted, in West Hollywood's Old Colony Antique Shop, a throne which appeared to him to be of hammered silver and gold, of the 16th Century or earlier. Summoning his powers of hocuspocus, Dr. Di Ghilini made small purchases, casually asked Joseph Osiel, tall, excitable part owner of the shop, about the throne. It would cost $2,000, said...