Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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City. With a deafening imitation of indignant innocence, Boss Hague let out a yell (in full-page advertisements, paid for by Jersey City) that could be heard for miles. Yelled Hague: "This will cost Jersey City $57,000,000 in twenty years...
What caused a really sincere note of alarm in Hague's indignation was the bill's provision that railroads should be reassessed, presumably at lower figures. Such a reassessment would force Hague to increase assessments on other Jersey City properties, already at the highest level in the U.S. An automatic lowering of the debt limit would follow, might bring Jersey City's fancy finances into the lurid red; for Hague has borrowed heavily in anticipation of railroad-tax collections...
...bill was only one phase of Governor Edison's adroit assault. Edison is well aware that a large part of Hague's power lies in control of New Jersey judges. The Governor showed his hand, a week after he took office, by appointing Republican Frederic R. Colie to the Supreme Bench. Hague's reaction: an hour of abuse and threats screamed into the Governor's ear by telephone from the Boss's winter den on Biscayne...
...week for New Jersey bosses, Atlantic County's Republican Boss Enoch ("Nucky") Lewis Johnson took it on the double chin. Long a shameless devourer of graft, showgirls & champagne, Boss Johnson stood before a Federal bar, smiled blandly when a jury foreman said: "Not Guilty." Second later, Nucky's tough face turned an unbecoming yellow at: "Guilty!" and "Guilty!" He had been convicted of cheating the Government out of taxes on $124,800 in '36 and '37. He had escaped conviction on a charge of doing the same thing in '35. Useful witnesses: operators...
...Jersey City draft board swung even more decisively. It called in a striker at the National Bearing Metals Corp., tossed out his deferment, marked him Class 1-A (available for military service...