Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present leadership and to demand, instead of a creed, an end to the age-old rotten borough representation of the South in Republican national conventions. To welcome Republican Chairman Hamilton when he arrived late in St. Louis from Washington, reporters asked him about such criticism as that of New Jersey's Robert W. Johnson (medical supplies). In no uncertain terms Mr. Johnson had called for the withdrawal from party councils of Herbert Hoover, Alf M. Landon, and John D. M. Hamilton. Reddening, Mr. Hamilton replied: "No one has the right to read me or anyone else...
...glossy little brochure touting the industrial advantages of his bailiwick, Mayor Frank Hague boasts that "an outstanding feature of Jersey City has been the stability of its municipal administration and the fairness of its policy toward the worker and capital alike." Boss Hague has been mayor for nearly a quarter-century and lately declared without conscious exaggeration: "I am the law." It so happened that Boss Hague was addressing a gathering of church-going constituents on juvenile delinquency when he dropped that Bourbon remark, but it has plagued him ever since in connection with his conception of "fairness...
...impossible for C. I. O. to hire a hall in Jersey City, and C. I. O. organizers are simply run out of town. Last month, having given plenty of advance notice, a group of C. I. O. organizers attempted to enter the city, accompanied by reporters, photographers and observers from the Workers' Defense League and the Civil Liberties Union. The idea was to test the validity of Boss Hague's ordinances against distributing non-commercial literature. The organizers from New York had some difficulty getting into Jersey City at all, for almost as fast as they arrived waiting...
Under the Most Rev. Thomas Joseph Walsh, 64, its bishop since 1928, the diocese of Newark with a large Italian population has long been populous. Previously part of the ecclesiastical province of New York, Newark will now head a province including the diocese of Trenton, and the New Jersey dioceses of Paterson and Camden, whose bishops are to be named this week...
...King '38, Manchester, New Hampshire; Arthur H. Klein '39, Brookline; Edward C. Lambert '38, Spokane, Washington; Frederick A. Lavey '38, Manchester, Connecticut; William H. Magill '40, Malden; Leon D. Starr '40, Cambridge; Arthur E. Tiemann '39, Winthrop; John C. Trakas '39, Boston; and Richard W. Tregaskis '38, Elizabeth, New Jersey...