Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Princeton's trustees decided last year to give Mr. Moore a degree but postponed it because he was then campaigning for election. This April the trustees confirmed their decision before Governor Moore's political godfather, Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City, was spotlighted for suppression of C.I.O. and civil liberty in Jersey City. A Princeton trustee mentioned the decision to Federal Judge William Clark-who is presiding over Jersey City's civil liberties suit. Judge Clark dropped the news in conversation at the 19th hole of Princeton's golf club...
...Judge Clark's court at Newark, the trial of Boss Hague ran through its third week. Besides being New Jersey's Democratic boss and Jersey City's mayor, Frank Hague is Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, which gratefully accepted $270,000 from C.I.O.'s cornerstone, the United Mine Workers of America, for its 1936 campaign. Alert C.I.O. Lawyer Morris Ernst asked Vice Chairman Hague if he would repudiate, for example, the C.I.O. supporters of Democratic Senator Alben Barkley in Kentucky, of Democratic Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan...
...Before a Senate subcommittee which last week considered the President's nomination of Judge Clark to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals (Philadelphia) appeared Democrat George S. Silzer, onetime Governor of New Jersey. No friend of Judge Clark, Mr. Silzer called him "unjudicious," "unfit to hold office," also "a smart damn fool." The committee approved, the Senate confirmed the appointment...
...Believe me, that was the biggest kick of all," said the 22-year-old son of a Jersey stone cutter next day as he was besieged by newshawks, radio scouts and theatrical agents. Taking his fishing rod, he went off for the day with the chief of police of his home town while Cincinnati townsfolk went wild. For the first time since 1919 there was talk of a National League pennant for the Reds (in third place and only four games behind the League-leading Giants). The club front office was stampeded for tickets. A sportswriter suggested that a statue...
Meanwhile, there was great moaning in Brooklyn when its baseball fans read the life story of young Vander Meer in the newspapers. They were not stirred by the fact that he had pitched five no-hit, no-run games in one season when he was 16 (for New Jersey semi-pro teams), nor the fact that he had played the role of "the typical American boy" in a movie short, nor the fact that he had struck out 295 batters two years ago during the twelve weeks he was pitching for the Durham Bulls (a Red farm)-for an average...