Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...states which have no such prohibition: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, Washington...
...years shark-mouthed Matyas Rakosi, Hungary's Communist boss, had been casting covetous eyes at MAORT (Magyar Amerikai Olajipari Rt.), the $25 million American-owned Hungarian affiliate of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey). Behind his greed was Moscow pressure: the American concession controlled richer fields than the Soviet-dominated joint company, Hungary's only other oil producer. The Russians had operated MAORT for a short time under Red army occupation, and wanted it back. Last week, Rakosi seized MAORT and in Washington the two U.S. citizen executives from whom he took it summed up the Rakosi expropriation method...
Last week hustling Mrs. Tufty was back at her regular job of covering the capital for 31 papers in Texas, Michigan and New Jersey. The Duchess, as she likes to be called, dashed up to Manhattan, her pincenez dangling wildly at her bosom, for a television gabfest with her good friend Mary Margaret McBride, and Congressman Fred Hartley. Said Tufty later: "Mary Margaret was a little out of her depth with Fred, so I just took over and interviewed him myself...
...news, peddled her clients a complete line of political stories and personality items, including her own daily columns. She soon had many a bigwig, including Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, eating out of her hand. Two years ago she took on as partner J. Albert Dear, a New Jersey publisher...
Peter Grahame Fletcher, an old Dover College boy, had spent his U.S. year at New Jersey's Peddie School. He preferred the English scheme of sorting the bright boys and the bumbleheads into separate forms to the American method of lumping them into an "intellectually mediocre" alloy. Fletcher considered his history teachers at Peddie too insistent on their own nationalistic opinions. ("At Dover, my history master told us to find out for ourselves who was right and who was wrong.") Charles Frederick Kinnard Dunn, who had gone from Eastbourne College to Pennsylvania's rich Hill School, was also...