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Civil Court: To court against Hillsborough Township, N.J. went blonde, gangling Richest-Girl-in-the-World Doris Duke Cromwell. In the midst of a fight over the township's delirious attempt to collect some $14,000,000 in personal taxes from her, Miss Duke announced she would sue the township for "many thousands of dollars" for the trouble they gave her. Sued in Manhattan for an eight-year-old hotel bill was Pola Negri, imperious siren of the silents, who used to do her ogling all tangled up in jewels, ermine and general fabulousness (see cut). Now she said...
Politics. In Iowa Township, Kans., five votes were cast in the primary. The voters: the five members of the election board. In Augusta, Me., State Representative Benjamin Bubar Jr., an opponent of lotteries, tied with his opponent for renomination, drew lots...
Burditt, who prepared for college at Lyons Township High School, is the second tallest player on the squad standing six feet, three inches while weighing a scant 155 pounds...
Doris Duke Cromwell, fighting tax levies of nearly $14,000,000 against her as a permanent resident of New Jersey's Hillsborough Township, testified that: 1) she had taken up Hawaii as a permanent residence, because "I feel better there than I do in the U.S."; 2) she had no idea what her wealth amounted to; 3) she habitually signed papers without reading them. Husband James H. R. Cromwell, from whom she is now estranged, changed his mind about living in Hawaii, she said, because he had "political ambitions in New Jersey" in 1938, but she herself plans...
...your growing dialect the complete color scheme of the 2,378 negroes of Rowanty township, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, as used by the heads of their families [and noted by me] in earning my master's degree in 1878? . . . Here they...