Word: flemington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago it found one: neat, elm-shaded Flemington (pop.: 2,700), site of the notorious Hauptmann trial. With a consistent assessment policy, a tax rate that seldom fluctuated, little debt, conservative little Flemington, near New Jersey's western border, looked good to harassed Standard. Into the tiny law office of sedate, greying George K. Large (Princeton '99; former country judge) went a huge new safe to hold the oil firm's records of incorporation. Up went the town's ratables as Standard was assessed $45,000,000 in personal property, paid...
...dwindling property tax rate (now 81?; town 8?) Flemingtonians could only guess. Maybe the town tax would melt away altogether. Busily turning their new-found tax savings into fresh coats of paint; landscaping, new roofs, etc., the town was rewarded for not being tax greedy. For Flemington's tax rate was 31? below any other New Jersey municipality-and still going down...
...Flemington, defense counsel lost no time announcing that it would appeal on 16 points including Judge Thomas Whitaker Trenchard's "misleading" charge to the jury...
...Flemington jurors received $300-a-week vaudeville offers after the trial...
...Flemington court attendants winked while a camera was concealed in the gallery to take newsreels...