Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd were Governors Lehman of New York, Hoffman of New Jersey, Earle of Pennsylvania, Cross of Connecticut. Fitzgerald of Michigan, Brann of Maine. There were One-Eye Connelly, Theodore Roosevelt. Ricardo Cortez, J. Edgar Hoover, Grade Allen, Warden Lawes, Paul Whiteman, Jock Whitney, Sally Rand. Gate receipts-including rights to radio and cinema-bettered $1,000,000. It was the first million-dollar fight since Dempsey v. Tunney in 1927, the sixth in ring history.* Hotels were packed to the doors, mostly by Middle Westerners celebrating a prosperous summer. Top-price on Broadway for ringside seats...
...nation to get answers to a quarter-billion questions. Last week the general staff of the quizzing army established headquarters in Detroit, whence they will manage operations in five great areas: 1) Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota. 2) California, Oregon, Washington, Utah. 3) Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas. 4) New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia. 5) Ohio, New York, Massachusetts...
...slowly but surely. In 1912 he bought the Ithaca Journal, followed it six years later with two Rochester papers. These he merged into the Times-Union, which he still edits personally at his Rochester headquarters. Thenceforth round, beaming Publisher Gannett acquired other upstate papers, added small dailies in New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, briefly entered the metropolitan field by buying and then reselling Brooklyn's venerable Daily Eagle. Nearly two years ago he bought his only magazine, The American Agriculturist, from his good friend Henry Morgenthau Jr. when that farmer-publisher became Secretary of the Treasury. Oldest (93 years) farm...
...Chairman-President Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic Steel drove the last rivet in his long-delayed merger with Corrigan, McKinney (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934). After stockholders of both companies ratified the proposal at simultaneous meetings in Cleveland and Jersey City, N. J., Tom Girdler announced that he and his fellow steelmen were "fairly optimistic" for the first time since...
Biographies by Harold Nicolson (Paul Verlaine; Swinburne; Curzon) have been characterized by careful scholarship, an almost ostentatious avoidance of partisan feeling, a mood of suppressed irony. These qualities are all revealed in his biography of Dwight Whitney Morrow, lawyer, Morgan partner, Ambassador to Mexico, Senator from New Jersey, whose life receives at Harold Nicolson's hands an intelligent and exhaustive review such as few U. S. capitalists have enjoyed. Beginning with an apology for the inability of an English author to comprehend all the factors of a U. S. background, Harold Nicolson presents Morrow as a "completely civilized...