Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jersey's reputation among experts in tax avoidance as a "good State" trembled in the balance last week. New Jersey has a property tax but no income tax. Its tax districts do not always collect taxes on intangible property as some States (e.g., Florida, Maryland) do. Last week one Jersey township up and did it, set vibrations going in many a high-powered law office. The township: Hillsborough. The taxpayer: Doris Duke Cromwell...
...Washington, D.C. are backed by some 30 sponsors anxious to sell everything from razors to dog food, has said he would rather not have any more sponsors. Unable to resist a sizable addition to his $2,350 a week, Godfrey this week begins to plug the wares of the Florida Citrus Commission, which recently lost interest in chirpy Mary Margaret McBride...
...that no one seemed to know it. The Norton Gallery and School of Art in West Palm Beach (Fla.) paid $10,000 for the yellow, 1,000-pound Youth, by William Zorach. The man who signed the check, and who has signed all the checks so far for Florida's newest palace of culture, was a spare, 65-year-old, fiddle-playing Chicago tycoon (Acme Steel), Ralph H. Norton...
...insurance commissions, at least until she comes into her $3,500,000 next year. He gave her a diamond-paved cabochon emerald ring. She said they would live obscurely. Dancers Tony and Renee de Marco seemed split for good when Renee left Manhattan last week, bound for "Florida ... or Reno." Maritally separated since 1938, they danced together until a few weeks ago. Now Veteran Tony, 41, has a new dancing partner, Sally Craven, whom he describes as "the kind of girl you want to . . . cuddle." Maria Farkas asked a California court to set aside the divorce she got from Director...
...world's half-dozen ablest conductors, England's goateed, salt-&-peppery Sir Thomas Beecham, struck up with the CBS Symphony. His tangiest item was a seldom-played piano concerto, the only one written by England's late, blind Frederick Delius, who once lived in Florida. At the keyboard in the concerto was a third Briton: pretty, blonde Betty Humby, 33, who has supported herself by expert piano-playing since she was a child...