Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baldwin, a famed liberal, is head of the Civil Liberties Union, an organization made up of a staff of lawyers who volunteer their services to help protect civil liberties. At present the organization is active in Jersey City...
...Jersey City's Mayor Hague has recently put up a barrier against the C.I.O. organization as far as his city is concerned, and the Civil Liberties Union has been fighting the mayor on the ground that the labor group has a right to function in Jersey City...
...Philip Dru" appeared at a significant moment in America, for at the end of 1912 House became known to the people as the friend of President-elect Wilson. The two men first met at a New Jersey dinner and soon recognized they held common interests, since the "Texas Talleyrand" had long been studying history and politics as a hobby, while Wilson had been writing and teaching them. Like the other muckrakers of that period,--Upton Sinclair, Judge Ben Lindsay, David Graham Phillips, and Lincoln Steffens--at heart Colonel House had the ideals of the reformer. After gaining Wilson's confidence...
When the New York-to-Cuba vacation liner Morro Castle was gutted by fire off the New Jersey coast in 1934 with the loss of 124 lives, closest approach to a hero to emerge from the muckraking Department of Commerce investigation that followed was the ship's chief radio operator, pudgy George White ("Sparks") Rogers. Having stuck to his key until he was hauled out of the radio room half-suffocated, Sparks Rogers was decorated for his heroism by the Veteran Wireless Operators Association...
...this was authorized by President Lazaro Cardenas, originator of "The Mexican New Deal" (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934), who, the night before, had decreed expropriation of the $400,000,000 foreign oil investment, held largely by subsidiaries of Royal Dutch Shell, Standard Oil of New Jersey and California and Sinclair oil companies. U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels, to whom U. S. correspondents excitedly suggested that the Roosevelt "good neighbor" policy may have convinced Mexican workers that they can take U.S.property with President Roosevelt's tacit approval, replied: "Neither President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull nor I knew about...