Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long before Son Charles became an important cog in New Jersey's New Deal machine. Successively he was a member of the State Recovery Board, of the Regional Labor Board, NRA Compliance Director, State Director of the National Emergency Council and member of the National Industry Recovery Board. He was called in as consultant when the Federal Housing Act was being drafted, named FHA director for New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. Last week President Roosevelt found a higher post on which Charles Edison might expend his zeal, named him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, a job vacant since...
What lawyers hear in their law offices, doctors in their consulting rooms, priests in their confessionals, they need not disclose in courts of law. Newshawks try to preserve a similar code, and sometimes go to jail for doing so, for only in four States-Maryland, New Jersey, Alabama, California-does the law specifically allow newshawks the right of concealing their news sources. Three weeks ago when Arkansas voters went to the polls they were asked to vote on a proposal to revise the State's criminal code to give newshawks immunity. The count was slow coming...
...McGrady, slim, dapper and energetic, Jersey City-born and South Boston-bred, has had a long career on the inside of both labor and politics. Although he looks like a man in his forties, he was already 22 years old when he got a job as a pressman on the Boston Herald 42 years ago. A good backslapper and able talker, he rose to head the local union, was spotted by George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen's Union, who picked him as an organizer. Berry, who belongs to the school of polished labor leaders, insisted...
...April when they heard that the principal beat one of them. At home Mrs. Bongart, a onetime Hunter College student, teaches them from old history and geography texts, prescribes excerpts from magazines and newspapers. Father Bongart, a mechanical engineer, teaches them drawing. Into court to testify that New Jersey teachers were better qualified than the Bongarts, marched the heads of two of the State's normal schools and West Orange's elementary education supervisor, Inez Johnson. After a three-day hearing the State rested its case and the Bongarts prepared to refute...
...retail business. To filling station operators they offered leases which made them, overnight, independent businessmen. Spreading rapidly into other States where rigorous chain legislation was in force or in prospect, the Iowa Plan became a national transformation. Beginning last January, great Standard Oil of New Jersey leased or sold 2,000 of its 2,500 company-owned Esso stations. Continental Oil disposed of every one of its 1,276 stations. Phillips Petroleum retained only six stations as training schools...