Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judge John H. Druffel of the Court of Common Pleas at Cincinnati, Mayor James H. Hurley of Willimantic, Conn., Mrs. Katharine Elkus White, Democratic leader of Red Bank, N. J., Novelist Owen Johnson of Stockbridge, Mass., a realtor from Manhattan, a club woman from Baltimore, an insurance man from Jersey City, etc., etc. Also present as ex-officio testers were the Federal Judge of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Oliver B. Dickinson (one of 25 Federal Judge out of favor at the White House, for he is 79), Comptroller of the Currency J. I T. O'Connor...
Declared to be suffering from schizophrenia, Maurice Fox, brother of onetime Cinemagnate William Fox, had his marriage annulled by his wife, a Jersey City school teacher, who pronounced him an "eccentric and a playboy," testified that on their honeymoon he had ordered 28 blankets brought to their bedroom...
Just about a year ago, according to the testimony she last week swore to in a Newark court, a wayward New Jersey girl named Anna Bartholomeo found herself pregnant and speedily learned about " 'Dr.' Harley's place." This was an eleven-room house in a respectable Newark neighborhood where one George E. Harley, a genteel little malpractitioner, conducted an anti-birth insurance business. For $2 a month, paid in advance, "Dr." Harley guaranteed that no cus tomer need have a baby. For contracep tive he dispensed a "Magic Oil." In case of pregnancy he stood ready...
...Down to her new office in Trenton bright & early went the only woman bank president in New Jersey and probably the prettiest bank president in the land. Her election to that job in Trenton Trust Co. was no gushing matter to green-eyed, graceful Mary Gindhart Roebling. Briskly she got the jump on local newshawks by asking them if they were depositors in Trenton Trust...
...Roebling and vice president of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. in Trenton. Siegfried Roebling died a year ago, leaving his wife among other things a large stock interest in Trenton Trust Co. No stranger to authority, Madam President Roebling is the only woman representative on New Jersey's new State Unemployment Compensation Commission, finance chairman of Trenton's Maternal Health Center, director of the Mercer County Health League. No lover of publicity, she is careful to point out that there are about 4,500 women officers in U. S. banks, 75 of them bank presidents...