· 12/14/1955
Murray Seasongood and Agnes Seasongood v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Citations
- 227 F.2d 907
- 48 A.F.T.R. (P-H) 711
- 1955 U.S. App. LEXIS 4966
How courts have described this case
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- examining 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)’s restriction on tax-exempt organizations from using a “substantial part of activities . . . to influence legislation”
- construing \propaganda\ to reach only coloring or distortion of facts with an ulterior motive, and holding that a Good Government League was not disqualified from receiving deductible contributions because a different construction might violate First Amendment
- where \something less than 5% of the time and effort of the League was devoted to the activities that the Tax Court found to be 'political' * * * the so-called 'political activities' of the League were not in relation to all of its other activities substantial\
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Judges: Simons, Mc-Allister, Miller
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