Taxpayers in Revolt: Tax Resistance During the Great Depression
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“Revolt of the Chicago Taxpayers.” Literary Digest 110, 18 July 1931, p. 6.
Sargent, Fred W. “The Taxpayers Take Charge.” Saturday Evening Post 205, 14 January 1933.
“Selling the City.” Public Management 15 (January 1933): 29.
Shepherd, William G. “The Winded City.” Colliers, 12 April 1930.
Simpson, Herbert D. “Fundamentals of the Tax Situation.” Illinois Journal of Commerce 13 (December 1931).
——— “Tax Delinquency—Economic Aspects,” Illinois Law Review 28, (June 1933).
Smith, Harold D. “Tax Limitation.” Municipal Finance 6 (August 1933): 47-52.
Smith, Wade S. “Recent Legislative Indulgences to Delinquent Taxpayers.” Law and Contemporary Problems 3 (June 1936): 371-75.
Springer, Gertrude. “The Fighting Spirit in Hard Times.” Survey 68, 15 June 1932.
Steed, Hal. “Adventures of a Tax Leaguer.” Saturday Evening Post 208, 4 November 1933.
Stillman, Charles B, “Will Chicago Support its Schools?” Chicago Union Teacher (April 1932).
“Tax Association Defies Kelly.” Lightnin’ (May 1933): 11.
“Tax Dodgers and How They Get Away With It.” Federation News 27, 13 February 1932, p. 2.
“Tax Limits Prove Unwise.” Tax Policy 1 (December 1933): 1-5. “Tax Strikes a la 1934.” National Municipal Review 23 (September 1934): 485.
“Taxation and Tyranny.” New Republic 73, 16 November 1932, pp. 4-6. “Taxpayers’ Organizations in the United States.” Tax Policy 5 (September 1938).
“Taxpayers’ Organizations: Supplement.” Tax Policy b (March 1939): 126.
“Taxpayers’ Revolt.” Minnesota Municipalities 17 (January 1932): 5.
Teninga, Cornelius. “Taxpayers Can Determine Taxes.” Chicago Real Estate Magazine 5, 14 June 1930, pp. 6-7.
Thelen, David P. “Social Tensions and the Origins of American Progressivism.” Journal of American History 56 (September 1969): 323-41.
Thorpe, Merle. “Leave the People Something to Do!” Nations Business 20 (August 1932): 11.
“Towards Understanding.” National Municipal Review 22 (October 1933): 490.
Traxler, Henry. “Why Pay Taxes?” Municipality 28 (July-August 1933).
“Using Common Sense in the Tax Saving Crusade.” American City 47 (July 1932): 52.
“Wake Up, Democracy!” Nation’s Schools 11 (March 1933): 64–65.
Walker, Mabel L. “The ABC’s of Taxation.” Independent Woman 13 (February 1934).
“When to Pay 1929 Tax Bills.” Chicago Real Estate Magazine 6, 18 April 1931, p. 7.
White, William Allen, “Turning Knowledge into Votes.” National Municipal Review 23 (February 1934): 85-86.
Wilson, Irvin A. “Bargain Hunting in Education.” Chicago Principals’ Club Reporter (May 1932): 3-7.
Woodworth, Leo Day. “Delinquent Taxes.” Tax Digest 12 (December 1934).
Dissertations, Theses, and Papers
Altman, Oscar Lewis. “Chicago’s Experiment in Personal Property Taxation, 1931-1936.” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1936,
Bernhard, Russell Sherman. “Five Years’ Experience under the Illinois Tax Receivership Act.” Master’s thesis, Northwestern University, 1938.
Biles, William R. “Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago: Big City Boss in Depression and War.” Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois, 1981.
Bush, Chilton Rowlette. “State Centralization: General Property Tax Rate Limitation and Its Relation to Municipal Finance.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1935.
Carey, Richard J. “Taxpayer Protests in the Great American Depression, 1931-1935.” Ph.D diss., University of Hawaii, 1979.
Clifford, Guy C. “The Massachusetts Taxpayers’ Foundation: Its Influence in Massachusetts Politics, 1932-1966.” Master’s thesis, University of Massachusetts, 1967.
Comery, George Richard. “A Study of the Enforcement of the Personal Property Tax in Cook County, 1929-1934.” Master’s thesis, Northwestern University, 1935.
Hardy, Bruce Allen. “American Privatism and the Urban Fiscal Crisis of the Inter war Years: A Financial Study of the Cities of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Boston, 1915-1945.” Ph.D. diss., Wayne State University, 1977.
Kloske, Ralph. “Fiscal Conservatism in New Jersey.” University of Wisconsin, 1985. Chapter in forthcoming Ph.D. dissertation.
Palmer, Tom G. “Toward a Liberal Theory of Class.” Unpublished paper, St. Johns University, 1982.
Stachcowski, Floyd J. “The Political Career of Daniel Webster Hoan.” Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University, 1966,
Stark, Bennett S. “The Political Economy of State Public Finance: A Model of the Determinants of Revenue Policy: The Illinois Case, 1850-1970.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1982.
