Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offered you work," shouted McCampbell, "you wouldn't take it. That's why I'm ashamed of you as citizens of New Jersey...
Year ago, after Republican Governor Harold G. Hoffman took office, a sales tax was imposed to provide relief revenues. Within a few months it grew so unpopular that it was repealed. The New Jersey Legislature which met last January could not agree on another form of relief taxation. So last week, after every cent of State money not legally tied up for other uses had been spent, the Legislature decided to knock off for six days...
...resolved: That the group of citizens now invading the State Assembly chamber in the State House at Trenton do hereby inform the Governor of the State of New Jersey that an insurrection is in progress...
...Assembly passed a resolution censuring the State House guard for permitting the "vulgar and burlesque" demonstrations of the week, requesting Governor Hoffman to prevent their recurrence. Assembly and Senate both passed resolutions requesting the Federal Government to return for relief funds $20,000,000 collected from New Jersey taxpayers. Then, unable to think of anything else to do, both Houses adjourned for two days, their leaders planning to confer in the more congenial atmosphere of a clubhouse. Encountering no opposition from the State House guard, Leader Cooke and "Speaker" Spain and their followers settled down once more on the Assembly...
...that joins Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela. For a few years Venezuela ranked second to the U. S. in oil production, though since 1931 Russia has crowded it into third place. In neighboring Colombia, where the oil oozed just as freely, only Standard Oil of New Jersey has so far made the tremendous investment necessary to get South American oil to market. Colombian oil fields are deep in mountainous jungles, far from water transport. Even more important in delaying Colombian developments were the involvements of Colombian concession laws. Standard's 356-mi. Andean Pipe Line from...