Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evidence of its unique position in the minds of the Administration, Associated Gas & Electric was tagged with the biggest batch of income tax liens ever filed in Manhattan-a total of more than $53,000,000. Filed in Newark were other liens against Associated companies in New Jersey for $5,400,000. A personal action for $1,500,000 was started against Howard ("Scarlet Pimpernel") Hopson, Associ-ated's slick, roly-poly boss...
...wife, Anna Hauptmann; his prosecutor, David T. Wilentz; his defense counsel, Edward J. Reilly, and New Jersey's official executioner, Robert Elliott, each has 13 letters in his name...
...voting members of the New Jersey Court of Errors & Appeals unanimously affirmed Hauptmann's conviction...
Governor Harold Hoffman of New Jersey (who also has 13 letters in his name), has no power to pardon prisoners, but he can stay executions for as much as 90 days. That the week of Jan. 13 may come and go without Prisoner Hauptmann's paying the supreme penalty for his crime was indicated last week when Governor Hoffman declared: "If Bruno Hauptmann were to be electrocuted tonight there would still be in my mind and, I am convinced, in the minds of hundreds of thousands of people, great doubt that the Lindbergh baby murder had been solved completely...
Chip Robert then married Evelyn Walker, beauteous, horsey daughter of Harold Walker, counsel to Standard Oil of New Jersey. Evelyn Walker Robert's brother, Aldace Walker III, married Joe Davies' daughter. Thus Joe Davies' son-in-law's brother-in-law is an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...