Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said she: "Isn't it lovely?" New Jersey's former Governor Harold Giles Hoffman, who last year dropped a slander suit against onetime Radio Commentator Boake Carter, began a 52-week series of news broadcasts himself. Excerpt from his first broadcast: "Happiness and heartbreak, achievement and failure . . . are wrapped up in that thing, chiefly transient, which we call news...
Last week, John A. Casterline of Dover, N. J., a modest, patient man who loves trees, eagerly showed reporters four luxuriant chestnut trees on the New Jersey estate of Success Coach Walter Boughton Pitkin. Then he displayed two more in his own backyard. They had been struck with the blight, he said, but he had saved them with his new tannic acid treatment. Method of treatment is simple: on the theories currently held by tree experts, that: 1) the tannic acid of tree-sap is as actively disease-resistant as human blood; and 2) the circulatory system of a tree...
...board may not like-a blind landing runway separated by only 200 feet from the flanking water of Flushing Bay. Last week even Newark's stout advocates feared that C. A. A. might approve North Beach and old Newark Airport might become a ghostly memento in the marshy Jersey meadows...
Last year, Charles Silber dug up some partners and some peat, contracted with 32-year-old Giles Wetherill to distribute his product. For several years the Wetherill family have marketed Hyper-Humus, a New Jersey peat older than Silber's Maine variety by a mere 10,000,000 years. Day before Richard Whitney went to jail he offered Giles Wetherill his near-defunct Florida Humus Co. ''for the price of a good automobile"; but Wetherill said he wanted peat bogs, not lawsuits. Humus has sold a piddling 10,000 tons per year, has nevertheless made a small...
...Jersey's Committeeman J. Parnell Thomas (Rep.), unenthusiastic, declined to discuss Mr. Valenti's charges with newspapermen. What really excited committee members who had gone to investigate in Manhattan, he said, was the Federal Writers Project. "It is," said Investigator Thomas, "a hotbed of communism...