Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which made New Jersey's Hoffman exclaim: "It's bad enough to be a Republican without having to be known as a poet...
...Manhattan banquet, New Jersey's Republican Governor Harold Giles Hoffman suggested that the G. O. Party emblem be changed from the elephant to the deer since the deer would "make a better run" and "a few bucks and a little doe would not hurt a damn bit." Thereupon the guests were treated by the toastmaster to a three stanza Hoffman poem, Where's My Daddy?, about a father who gets run over by an automobile...
...corrugated paper board to apple trees. The moth larvae think this material is bark, dig in. Their cages are hung with purple cellophane to simulate twilight. In the greenhouse basement is the Japanese beetle division. This handsome insect, whose U. S. infestation is spreading from a focus in New Jersey, is prone to go on hunger-strikes in captivity, avoid the sprayed plants which the researchers want them to eat. The strike is broken by shining a powerful light in their cages, which attracts them upward from the floor. They cannot cling to the glass walls and tops...
...five minutes to seven last Sunday evening a squad of actors and a battalion of New York University students, New Jersey high-school children and boys' club members were assembled in Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory. In five minutes they would begin to enact the most ambitious radio play ever attempted in the U. S., The Fall of the City. Pulitzer Prize Poet Archibald MacLeish (Conquistador, Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City, Panic) had written it. Director Irving Reis of Columbia's Workshop of the Air had persuaded Orson Welles, one of the country...
...poor time to return to the U. S. In Depression times, even lavish Manhattan publishers had no use for a non-commercial author. Alec had to take his family to live with his in-laws, narrow middle-class people in a narrow middle-class New Jersey suburb. He quickly found that the sacrifice of his talent and a willingness to work at anything were not sufficient qualifications. At last he got work as a farmhand. He was not very good at it, worked with a chip on his shoulder that eventually lost him the job. Then he took anything...