Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Someone whose house we can point out and whose photograph we can show. Why shouldn't this city, this parish, give the world a saint? Why shouldn't there be some day a St. Michael of New York, St. John of The Bronx or St. Mary of Jersey City, just as there is St. Rose of Lima, St. Anthony of Padua and St. Francis of Assisi? . . . Pray for our first native American saint...
...fluent stream was spoken into Dictaphones, which Mr. Brisbane had installed even in his limousine and on planes and trains. Often the "Today" column would be dictated as Mr. Brisbane's car stood on the deck of the ferry taking him from Manhattan to his New Jersey estate. The speed with which he learned to dispose of journalistic chores left him plenty of time to devote to his financial and real estate interests...
Eccentric to a mild degree when he got older, Brisbane displayed no fear of Death, took sensible health precautions. On his New Jersey estate he built a brick tower which he called "a machine for living." Each of its five floors had one large room. On the roof was a sleeping arrangement, for Brisbane argued that if outdoor sleeping was helpful to consumptives, it must also be good for people in normal health. When the morning sun waked him, he merely adjusted a lightproof mask of black silk, slept peacefully...
Near Somerville, N. J. one day last month Trooper William A. Turnbull of New Jersey's State Police sighted a blue sedan scorching down the highway, gave chase, forced the speeders to stop. While he was arguing with the driver, another man and a woman got out of the automobile, poked pistols in his back. In the car they stripped, bound and wrapped him in a blanket, drove 50 miles to a spot near Bethlehem, Pa. where they dumped him out with his wrists bound, lips taped...
...three weeks ago two New Jersey troopers appeared at a police station in Manhattan's upper West Side, reported that a repair bill from a nearby garage had been found in the kidnappers' abandoned automobile. Police promptly notified local G-men, offered to cooperate with them on the case. The G-men preferred to work alone. New York City detectives and New Jersey troopers then discovered that Brunette had lately married a resident of upper Broadway, set a watch on her family's house. At this point, according to police, the G-men offered to join forces...