Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approach of the chair-warming stage in union development are the 21 long and involved collective agreements which the N. M. U. has concluded for nearly 10,000 of its members. The contracts are mainly with the coal carriers and tankers, including Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Since fall, the union has wrangled unsuccessfully with the deep sea lines...
Overseer of the Poor in Hoboken for 42 of his 74 years was bluff, beefy Harry L. Barck. He thought during Depression that the State let the "Relief trust" turn public charity into a racket. Two years ago, when New Jersey turned administration of relief over to its municipalities, he proceeded to act on this belief by cutting Hoboken's Relief rolls from 7,000 clients to 360. Tales were borne to the State capital at Trenton about Mr. Barck bawling out applicants, refusing to buy milk for families with small children. Poormaster Barck's friends retorted that...
...elections held recently, James D. Lightbody, Jr., '40, of Gleucoe, Illinois, H. Lane Blackwell, Jr., '39, of Cambridge, and Peter Waring, '39, of Fssex Falls, New Jersey were elected to the Eliot House Committee...
...weeks before Christmas, Cue, a Manhattan magazine devoted almost entirely to cinema & theatre news, polled its 19,000 subscribers, found they stood 9-to-1 against the double bill. Last fortnight Cue decided to broaden the scope of its inquiry, queried 150,000 residents of Greater New York, New Jersey, Long Island, Westchester and Connecticut. Last week first results of Cue's new poll were in. Fran Darien. Conn, down through the towns and villages flanking Long Island Sound, and in sections of New York City, the double feature was taking a decisive beating, ranging from...
...Jersey's lanky, drawling Senator William H. Smathers honeymooned in Florida after his marriage to Mary James Foley, his absence from the Senate was explained by sprightly, pink-&-grey whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis: "The senior Senator from New Jersey is detained by domestic urgencies...