Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last year the state of New Jersey slipped him a disturbingly potent mickey -it put voting machines into Hoboken. The effect was electrifying. Some of McFeely's cops, angry at having been directed to waive their overtime pay during World War II, campaigned for a civil service referendum. It passed. After that, Hoboken's long-suffering citizens began to think of throwing off their shackles...
...girls will take on the heat the College can offer but were vague about giving up their T-shirts if beaten. "We've got what it takes," said coxswain "ReeDee" (rhymes with Tweedy) Dorsey, Wellesley '50, who learned to row in a Jersey cranberry...
...Bipartisan. As the argument raged, delegations of U.S. Communists sat in the galleries, hissed speakers who advocated passage and thus annoyed many a wavering member into complete support of the bill. New Jersey's hulking Charles A. Eaton, aged chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, pulled out a telegram from United Nations Representative Warren R. Austin. Aid to Greece and Turkey, Austin wired, was justified, would strengthen the United Nations, should be approved...
...Jersey switchboard last week a tired man in a rumpled business suit flipped the key, patiently intoned: "Is this an emergency call?" An irritated woman's voice replied: "Of course it is. I think you are a very rude man. I don't think you deserve to get any more money...
...result he has been criticized for not being aware of the changes that have occurred in industrial relationships since 1935. But in this case it is the standpatter who has the greater insight into labor-management problems. Ever since Alexander Hamilton discovered that a character obtained in New Jersey offered certain advantages to the rising young magnate, the working rules of society have been shaped by business men. As industrial relationships became more complex and more impersonal, labor found that even though its greater productivity justified higher wages, shorter hours, and more consideration for workers as individuals, its demands were...