Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...I.L.A. bosses called the strike against the New York-New Jersey Waterfront Commission, set up (with the approval of Congress) in 1953 to get rid of I.L.A. goons and racketeers. The commission had barred from the docks 670 hoodlums with criminal records, abolished the daily "shape-up" (at which I.L.A.-blessed bosses doled out jobs) and opened its own hiring halls for the port's 31,900 longshoremen. The I.L.A., which beat out an A.F.L. rival to win a union-shop contract last year, set out this summer to stop the commission's slow cleanup...
...bookmaking. A fortnight ago, despite court injunctions and its contract, the I.L.A. shut down the whole port-without a strike vote or any formal demands. Union leaflets demanded that the Waterfront Commission show a "humane approach towards men with police records." State governments of New York and New Jersey stood pat behind the commission. Last week, after eight days on strike, the I.L.A. settled for a face-saving formula: a citizens' committee to hear union complaints against the commission...
Meanwhile, three years ago, Lillian managed to form her own all-girl orchestra, played clubs around Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Occasionally she would put on a "bop hat" and long plaid jacket with huge key chain and hoarsely sing her own lyrics to songs. "Sing! What am I saying?" she laughs now. "But it was the only singing I ever did until just lately...
Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey...
...Indian Wars, he commanded a naval force on Lake Champlain, which in a three-hour battle captured an 18-gun French frigate. He is credited with raising the first British flag over conquered Montreal. In the American Revolution, he served in battle against the American Continentals in the New Jersey campaign, later rose to become a lieutenant general and commander of Quebec. But as an artist Davies was almost unknown until a portfolio of his watercolors turned up in 1953 m England, in the Earl of Derby's old library at Knowsley Hall. The New York Public Library bought...