Word: hoffmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago, after Republican Governor Harold G. Hoffman took office, a sales tax was imposed to provide relief revenues. Within a few months it grew so unpopular that it was repealed. The New Jersey Legislature which met last January could not agree on another form of relief taxation. So last week, after every cent of State money not legally tied up for other uses had been spent, the Legislature decided to knock off for six days...
...Alliance members slept in their chairs or on the floor. The number of demonstrators increased to 250 and the "Assembly" appointed two "sergeants-at-arms" to keep the children from romping too noisily around the Speaker's desk during speeches. A delegation had a friendly interview with Governor Hoffman, demanded the immediate reconvening of the Legislature. The Governor asked the Legislature to do so. The Assembly leaders agreed, then lost their nerve. Instead, a handful of Assemblymen and Senators gathered informally at Newark for a club conference...
That the feeling against Governor Hoffman was not exclusively political was further proved when Princeton's President
...weeks ago, when the Hauptmann furor had temporarily died down, New Jersey's Republican State Committee chose to indicate that harmony had been restored within the Party by endorsing Governor Hoffman as a candidate for delegate-at-large to the coming national convention. Day after the Hauptmann execution last week Republican Fort, confident of strong Party support, announced that he would run against Governor Hoffman for that job next May 19 on the sole issue of the Hoffman Case. "For five years," declared he, "I have taken no part in New Jersey political affairs other than to support...
Throughout the month preceding Bruno Richard Hauptmann's electrocution, Carter had relentlessly goaded New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman and his henchmen for playing political football with the life of the condemned man. Last week Boake Carter summed up his opinion of such doings by declaring in his sinister British baritone that Hoffman & Co. had "turned Justice upside down and kicked...