Word: townely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chamber music is caviar to musical gourmets. Caviar from the very finest of sturgeons is the chamber music produced by the famed Budapest String Quartet, world's top-ranking string ensemble. To gobble up this treat last fortnight Manhattan's hungriest musical highbrows gathered in Town Hall to hear the first concert of the New Friends of Music's annual chamber-music series...
...Ohio, schoolboys, aged 9 to 12, organized a "Black X" gang, exacted tribute of 1? to 20? from their schoolmates for allowing them, to go to school without getting beaten up. One mother who received a note ("We want 15 cents by Monday or else we will go to town") kept her boy out of school for three days. Police discovered he had written it himself...
...Jersey (assets: $2,044,635,000). Hit with a $300,000,000 assessment on its intangible property by Newark in 1935, the company got it reduced to $50,000,000, paid a $2,000,000 personal property tax, promptly moved its books and records to Linden. There town fathers slapped on a $75,000,000 "omitted assessment." Standard paid a $1,000,000 tax and began looking for still another home...
...little Flemington, near New Jersey's western border, looked good to harassed Standard. Into the tiny law office of sedate, greying George K. Large (Princeton '99; former country judge) went a huge new safe to hold the oil firm's records of incorporation. Up went the town's ratables as Standard was assessed $45,000,000 in personal property, paid a $301,500 tax. Down dropped the 1938 tax rate from...
Tickled pink were Flemingtonians. Not only was their personal property rate for State and county lowered but their town tax almost disappeared-shrank from $1.15 to 10?. Santa Claus had come to town out of season. The good word got around. Great Western Sugar Co. (assets: $82,402,000) heard it, blinked at the 67? tax rate, pulled up stakes in Plainfield. Into Judge Large's office, a block from the courthouse, went Great Western's new safe and papers-and the place got crowded...