Word: hillsborough
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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...
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...
...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...
...assessment was the handiwork of Alfred L. Kirby, professional revenue bloodhound for taxing bodies. In Hillsborough's employ, Kirby found that Mrs. Cromwell had never made a return on her intangible property, legally due ever since she was 21. She has paid some $20,000 annually on her Duke farms, her buildings, her personal property. Discoverer Kirby decided that she was also taxable not only for stocks, bonds, etc. held in her name but also as a trustee for the Duke Endowment Fund, a New Jersey trust. Stopped by law from snuffing back more than two years, the taxers...
Into this pretty pie Hillsborough's tax collector thereupon thrust his thumb, but his chances of pulling out a plum were rather iffy. Mrs. Cromwell can protest the assessment. Most likely grounds: that she is a resident of Honolulu, not Hillsborough...