Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitution provides that states may make compacts or agreements with one another provided Congress ratifies them. Best example is the compact setting up the Port of New York Authority which links New York and New Jersey together with four bridges and the Holland Tunnel. As a State Senator, Mr. Toll served in the negotiations for the Colorado River Compact which was to divide water power and water rights from Boulder Dam among seven Western states. He soon learned that states seldom agree, because they have no machinery for negotiation. The Colorado River Com pact was ten years in the making...
...March 1935, New Jersey became the first State to pass such a law. Year ago, when the first General Assembly of Commissions on Interstate Co-operation was held, New Jersey and Colorado were its only members. Last week the second General Assembly found 14 states with such Commissions, all of them, except Colorado and Nebraska, from east of the Mississippi. In addition, twelve other states which have not yet formally adopted the plan have standing committees on interstate co-operation in one or both houses of their legislatures. Seven other interested states sent delegates to last week's convention...
Already in the few months that such commissions have existed they have gone quietly to work. Most active have been the commissions of the three adjoining States of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, which have had no less than ten meetings since last November on labor compacts, anti-crime measures, highway safety, milk control, stream pollution and water supply, relief for jobless transients, use of the waters of the Delaware River basin. No noteworthy compacts have yet been made, but legislative programs have been worked out and the wheels of co-operation have been started turning...
...Jersey City last week for the annual stockholders' meeting of Borden & Co. journeyed about 15 Manhattan gentlewomen primed with leading questions. The League of Women Shoppers, least vague, best-mannered consumer pressure group of its kind, was making its first sortie on the management of a company whose labor policy it disapproved. After the meeting, thin, exasperated Chairman Albert Goodsell Milbank rumbled that nothing like this had happened in 80 years...
...entire action takes place in a desolate stone house situated on a remote New Jersey sand bar and with the constantly throbbing with the roar of the sea and eerie swish of the wind. The dramatics personae includes a mother who is so devoted to her mysterious infant that she places no value upon the lives of the child's nursemaids; a father whose sole energies are absorbed in his relentless pursuit of the poor nurses; a servant who is blind, about seven feet tall and as ugly as his disposition. There are sundry other characters moving about with appropriate...