Word: jersey
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Mitchell T. Rabkin of Dunster House and Camden, New Jersey, Photography Editor '51 Freshman Redbook...
...same time, the Office announced that a representative of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey Overseas will be at Weld Hall 30 Monday to interview February graduates in engineering, geology, and applied physics for jobs with Esso in Venezuela...
Ranting & Liberal. The powerful Rules Committee, will fall to Illinois' 82-year-old Adolph J. Sabath, the Ways & Means Committee to North Carolina's Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, who last week celebrated his 85th birthday. In the place of New Jersey's Fred Hartley as chairman of the Labor Committee will be Michigan's liberal John Lesinski. Chairmanship of the Un-American Activities Committee will return to Georgia's John S. Wood, who, following past form, will probably let Mississippi's ranting John Rankin run the show...
While running the House Un-American Activities Committee, New Jersey's red-faced J. Parnell Thomas was frustrated by the Constitution's Fifth Amendment, which says: "No person . . . shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." Thomas unmercifully badgered many witnesses who fell back on that constitutional guarantee. Last August his committee seriously proposed that Congress find some means of barring the Fifth Amendment's protection to Communists...
...Jersey Standard and Socony, both signers of the famed Red Line agreement* of 1938, had persuaded their British and Dutch partners in the Iraq Petroleum Co., Ltd. to agree to waive any claim to a share in Jersey Standard-Socony's take from Aramco. But Gulbenkian, the only Red Liner who had signed the agreement as an individual, stood firm. For wangling the original concession in Iraq from the Turks in 1911, he holds a 5% interest in the Iraq Petroleum Co., Ltd. He doggedly insisted that the Red Line agreement still stood; he wanted...