Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Crempa grinned with enormous pride last week while employes of a Public Service Corp. of New Jersey subsidiary testified in court at Elizabeth concerning the ingenious devices with which he had short-circuited or cut their high tension wires more than 20 times (TIME, Oct. 14, et ante). "He interrupted service to hospitals where operations were going on," cried an attorney. "He disrupted the signal service of a railroad, and he threw theatres and department stores and homes crowded with people into darkness...
Before he leaves New Jersey, however, John Crempa may have to face charges of malicious mischief for tampering with P. S. C.'s wires or of assault & battery for trying to fight off the deputies...
...bare Manhattan studio last week ten very serious young women worked like demons night & day, flinging themselves into the air, jumping frogwise, stomping, crouching, twisting their torsos. All were barefoot, wore scant jersey tops, long trailing skirts. On a chaise longue sat their director, an alert, thin, ashen-faced woman who stopped them abruptly when Anita's arm was too high or Bonnie's feet too far apart. The Martha Graham dancers were rehearsing for one of their periodic Manhattan recitals. Their leader had more in store. This week she was to start on a transcontinental tour...
...only does this make the workers weak, spineless, and servile, so that in the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, another perpetrator of these policies, there have been no strikes or labor troubles of any kind since the beginning of the depression, and, even easier, far before under the present leadership, but also this treatment of labor is now absolutely illegal. Heroes Wagner and Roosevelt (my blessing upon them for many services rendered) have made such activitiy absolutey illegal...
Captain John F. Stokes, head of the State detective bureau, was assigned to the case, due to a communication from Colonel Schwarzkopf of the New Jersey police to Colonel Kirk of Massachusetts. Stokes withheld what little information he was believed to possess...