Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mary Teresa Norton, Representative from New Jersey and friend of Boss Frank Hague, last fortnight introduced a bill to make the Civilian Conservation Corps permanent. Said she, "I hope Congress acts promptly...
...members of the 1940 Board who will take over the six Executive Board positions today are as follows: Blair Clark, of Princeton New Jersey, will be President; B. Sheffield West, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Managing Editor; John H. Sisson, of Brookline, Business Manager; Garfield H. Horn, of Long Beach, California, Editorial Chairman; Charles N. Pollak II, of Bronxville, New York, Executive Editor, and Julian E. Agoos, of Brookline, Photographic Chairman. They will serve until February...
Federal Judge Guy L. Fake of New Jersey has a judicial eye for art. Last year he banished from his court a female figure of Justice minus not only the necessary scales but the even more necessary heavy draperies. Last week he disapproved another work...
...Italian trouble enveloped France, it became known that Ally Britain had actually "invaded" it. Deputy Michel Geistdoerfer protested the occupation by the British of the French Minquiers Islands, a group of tiny, rocky islets in the Gulf of St. Malo, halfway between St. Malo and the Isle of Jersey, which have long been used for French lighthouses. Deputy Geistdoerfer said that British "penetration" had been, going on there since 1839 on the basis of a 1360 treaty, and that now the Union Jack was floating over the islands...
When Oscar Sher crashed into Thomas Barrett's car in New Jersey two years ago, Barrett's nose was cut off. A policeman found it on the hood of Barrett's car, rushed it to the hospital where it was stitched back in place. But in court last fortnight, Barrett told a sad tale: his appliquéd nose had sloughed off. He had to have a new one modeled out of cartilage. Jury's award...