Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fines. In the East last week the air seemed alive with waterfowl. One huge flight winged in and spent the night on saltwater bays and coves inside New York City limits, where shooting is prohibited. Elsewhere in New York, New Jersey and Maryland, however, the twelve-gauge guns began barking, though in the East too hunters were plagued with fair weather...
...asked the Campbellite circuit-rider. "Son," answered the preacher, "they all go straight to hell." Then & there Ohio-born William McCarthy decided that there was no God. Last week, at 83, white-haired Atheist McCarthy, still of the same mind, was hard at work fighting religion in the New Jersey superior court...
...decided to devote his time and money to combating humanity's yearning to believe and worship. He spent five years writing a 725-page diatribe against Christianity, called Bible, Church and God. Four years ago he organized a few of his fellow thinkers into the "Secularists of New Jersey" (membership 150). Two years ago his group joined with other societies throughout the country to become the "United Secularists of America," with headquarters in Chicago...
...Jersey, as in eleven other states, there is a statute which requires that the Bible be read without comment in every public school. To the Secularists, this was a violation of the "wall of separation between church & state...
What Lawyer Heyman Zimel of Paterson, N.J. wanted, to make a foolproof test case, were protests from 1) the parent of a schoolchild, and 2) a New Jersey taxpayer. Mrs. Henry O. Klein, ex-Roman Catholic and longtime Secularist, filled the bill for the parent: her 17-year-old daughter Gloria was a student at the Hawthorne High School. Donald R. Doremus, a mechanic of East Rutherford and director of the Secularists of New Jersey, was glad to protest as a taxpayer. With Lawyer Zimel, they filed their case before Superior Court Judge Robert H. Davidson...