Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Transferred to a private room as the delighted hospital's guest, Mrs. Kasper remained unhappy. Mindful of the publicity windfall which the Dionne quintuplets brought to Callander, Ontario, the mayor of Passaic begged the Governor of New Jersey for State money to keep the Kasper quadruplets alive. A news photographer paid Father Kasper $750 for permission to photograph the infants. Cried the mayor to the father: "Don't sign anything, even if it's good, until the legal staff of Passaic has looked it over...
Appealed. By George Washington, inventor of a process for manufacturing prepared coffee: a Circuit Court decision handed down in New Jersey requiring him to pay income tax on the 80% of his royalties from G. Washington Coffee Relining Co. which he assigned to his family in 1918; to the U. S. Supreme Court...
...Philadelphia is not finicky about having a Congressman really live in the district he represents. In 1927 the late James M. Beck, who lived in Washington and summered in New Jersey, was given a House nomination by the Vare machine, promptly rented a sleazy apartment in a poor district of Philadelphia which he never actually occupied. Following his election, his right to a House seat was challenged on the Constitutional ground that he did not live in Pennsylvania. A cocky Republican majority in the House overrode the evidence against him, seated him regardless...
Under the gallery stares of frowsy jobless, who for eight days had camped on the floor holding mock sessions (TIME, May 4), New Jersey's reassembled Assembly last week shunted the relief problem back to helpless municipalities. It passed a bill, approved the same evening by the State Senate, which sets up a commission composed of Governor Harold G. Hoffman and four Republican officials to disburse State relief money if & when available, failed to provide a tax system to raise it, adjourned...
Upheld. The right of the State of New Jersey to levy a $12,247,000 inheritance tax on the $115,000,000 estate of President John Thompson Dorrance of Campbell Soup Co.; in New Jersey's Court of Errors & Appeals, after five years of litigation. Because New Jersey's Soupman Dorrance several years before his death bought a home in Radnor, Pa., his executors have already paid Pennsylvania $15,-000,000 in inheritance taxes...