Word: townships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...reputation among experts in tax avoidance as a "good State" trembled in the balance last week. New Jersey has a property tax but no income tax. Its tax districts do not always collect taxes on intangible property as some States (e.g., Florida, Maryland) do. Last week one Jersey township up and did it, set vibrations going in many a high-powered law office. The township: Hillsborough. The taxpayer: Doris Duke Cromwell...
...drums of doom and the trumps of wrath sounded last week in Columbia, S. C. While an orchestra in Township Auditorium thumped and surged, soloists and chorus gave tongue to the great Requiem of Giuseppe Verdi. When the long work reached its hushed close, 4,000 people applauded. Few of them had ever heard the like. Next afternoon and evening, they sat down to easier music. Punch-pleased were Columbians by their seventh music festival. And peacock-proud were they of the outfit which had engineered the festival: the town's own Southern Symphony, the only 100% professional outfit...