Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Edward A. Kenney, New Jersey Congressman since 1933, sponsor in 1934 of a billion dollar national lottery bill; by a six-story fall from the Hotel Carlton, in Washington, few hours after praising Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague at a New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Dinner in the building...
Into the office of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague one day last week marched New Jersey's Governor-Elect, A. Harry Moore. "Mayor," said Mr. Moore, "this is your birthday and I always come to extend congratulations. Today I thought that in extending my congratulations I could make no better gift than to offer you the United States Senatorship to succeed...
...Governor," replied the 62-year-old boss of Jersey City, lapsing into grammatical English, "I don't know how to thank you for this offer. . . . But while I am exceedingly grateful to you I will have to decline. . . ." Acceptance might be interpreted as running away from his fight with C. I. O. and "the Reds...
With this scene enacted, Frank Hague took his affable puppet to Trenton to be inaugurated as the first New Jersey Governor to serve three terms. Before receiving the State's Great Seal from Harold G. Hoffman, the man he gave it to three years before, Mr. Moore wrote himself a letter of resignation as U. S. Senator. His first act in office was to acknowledge and approve his own resignation, Ms next was to appoint John Milton to the U. S. Senate...
Three minutes past the midnight when his term as New Jersey's Governor ended, Harold G. Hoffman stepped from his office, shouted at an astonished janitor: "I want those overhead lights out as soon as possible. I am a taxpayer...