Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Boss Hague's other Senator, A. Harry Moore, has declared against the President's Court Plan, New Jersey is ready to go whichever way the political cat jumps...
...illness, strike, riot, civil commotion or act of God, not even the profit motive was responsible for the long delay in Senator Bill Smathers' taking office. During the interval he was drawing $500 a year as a State Senator in New Jersey instead of $10,000 as a U. S. Senator. He had stayed in New Jersey in a vain attempt to help Democratic Boss Hague of Jersey City gain control of the State Senate where the Republicans had a majority of one, with one seat in dispute...
...Bishop, Most Rev. John Aloysius Duffy, 52. A strapping, twinkling-eyed onetime boilermaker who, it is said, still holds a union card, Bishop Duffy taught at Seton Hall College in South Orange, N. J., whence he used to tramp twelve miles weekly to visit his mother in his native Jersey City. He rose to be chancellor, then vicar general of the diocese of Newark, was made Bishop of Syracuse in 1933, transferred to the larger see of Buffalo last January...
...good standing and U. S. Representative Herbert Seely Bigelow of Ohio is pastor of Cincinnati's People's Church. Secretary of State of Iowa is Dr. Robert Enlow O'Brian, Methodist minister and onetime president of Morningside College in Sioux City. Currently many a New Jersey Republican favors, as lis next gubernatorial candidate, Rev. Lester Harrison Clee, State Senator and pastor of Newark's Second Presbyterian Church...
...City Hall. Fortnight earlier had come rumors from Philadelphia of a poll of 16,800 Curtis stockholders. From $6,000 in 1934, Pennsylvania had upped its taxes on Curtis Publishing Co. to $716,000 in 1936, rumored a levy of $1,800,000 in 1937. Delaware and New Jersey were mentioned as new home States for Curtis. There taxes would be around...