The size and source of the personal wealth of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague, Democratic Boss of New Jersey, has long been one of the State's chief political mysteries. Suspicion that the size was large and the source illicit cut his normal 7-to-1 majority down to 3-to-2 when he was re-elected last year (TIME, May 27, 1929). Two Republican legislative committees had cited him for contempt when he refused all information on his financial affairs. Cleared of contempt by the courts, he sailed for Europe (TIME, Sept. 9, 1929), returned to the U.S....
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