Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High over Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City last week circled an airplane trailing a sign: "Beat Hague-Vote American." Down on the ground, harsher words were being spoken: "Politically and morally our city has lost all semblance of democracy, having degenerated into America's first dictatorship. [After] years of misrule . . . Jersey City is tottering on the precipice of financial bankruptcy." Both skyborne and ground-gripping words came from Republicans who hoped-but scarcely expected-to pry Frank Hague loose from his 24-year-old seat as mayor of Jersey City. If facts were votes, they might have...
...Jersey City's adjusted tax rate is higher than any other U.S. city of comparable size (200,000 to 500,000). Its 1940 rate: $52.98 per thousand dollars of assessed valuation. Assessments ran at least 100% of true valuation, sometimes more. A survey of 108 properties by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board showed that they were so over-assessed that their average effective tax rate was $74 on $1,000. On one of its houses, on which HOLC collects $75 a month rent, it sets a modest appraisal of $6,000. Jersey City's appraisal...
...even Jersey City's sky-high taxes did not pay the breathtaking cost of supporting the city in the style to which Hague has accustomed his loyal followers. Among its sister cities of the U.S., not counting bonded debt for utilities. Jersey City has the highest per capita net bonded debt: $172.33. Average...
People and businesses have moved out of Jersey City like the Israelites from the land of Egypt. Moaned the New Jersey Voter, taxpayers' watchdog: 50 to 60% of mortgaged private homes have been foreclosed. Population has dropped from 316,715 to 301,173 in ten years, while neighboring cities showed population spurts. Empty windows, deserted, ramshackle buildings, line Jersey City's tired streets...
Last week Boss Hague was Florida-fit and all set to go. He started the week by filing petitions nominating him for another four years on the City Commission. Jersey City will go to the polls on May 13 to elect five commissioners, who serve four-year terms and choose one of their own number to be mayor. Mr. Hague has been chosen uninterruptedly since 1917. From 160,000 registered voters in the city, Hague workers had collected 125,731 signatures to petitions. Only 766 were required. Said smiling Boss Hague, as truckmen lugged the petitions into City Hall...