Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case to the Senate and House Rules Committees, arguing that radio handles news just as newspapers do except for printing it and charging people for it, and that excluding radio from the press galleries was in effect giving special privilege to the printing trades. In the Senate New Jersey's Barbour and Iowa's Gillette, and in the House New Mexico's Jack Dempsey pressed his case. By last week both Rules Committees had decreed that henceforth radio should have "equal facilities" for covering Congress. Last week workmen began making part of the House visitors' gallery...
...definitely out of danger and is recuperating on the Coast . . . Strong rumor has it that Bea Wain, Larry Clinton's song stress, is going to leave at the end of her contract to do solos. This is supported by the fact that Larry has signed Marion Douglas of New Jersey...
...youngest attorney general in New Jersey history, 36-year-old Thomas Mesbitt McCarter, resigned to merge the State's helter-skelter trolley and transmission lines into one concern. Today his Public Service Corp. of New Jersey is the biggest company operating entirely in the State (total assets: $686,000,000). Founder McCarter's shock of hair has turned from red to white, but his bulky, florid personality is still as dominant as ever...
...clock, Yale will have the affirmative on the question: "Resolved, That the United States should orient its foreign policy in vigorous opposition to the Fascist Powers", while Donald McDonald '39, Stanley, O. Beren '41, and Jack S. Orloff '41 will support the Crimson in the negative. Meanwhile in New Jersey another Harvard delegation of Lawrence F. Ebb '39, Phil C. Neal '40, and Malcolm R. Wilkey '40, will uphold the affirmative of the same question against Princeton...
...Representative Osmers of New Jersey introduced a bill requiring the President to take command of the Army in the field, should war come, and drafting for active service (without commissions) the Vice President, Cabinet members, war-voting members of Congress, directors of munitions companies, war-loan bankers. Any one pleading physical disability must spend the duration...