Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME IN MY CAREER HAVE I OR ANYONE IN MY EMPLOY EVER BEEN PICKED UP BY POLICE "FOR TAKING PORNOGRAPHIC PICTURES." YOU HAVE ERRONEOUSLY REPORTED THE NEW JERSEY INCIDENT IN YOUR ARTICLE . . . THE FACTS ARE THAT THIS WAS A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY. IT WAS ACKNOWLEDGED AS SUCH BY THE BERGEN COUNTY (N.J.) PROSECUTOR, WHO APOLOGIZED FOR THE EMBARRASSMENT CAUSED TO ME AND TO MY EMPLOYEES...
...Jersey police, after looking at the developed films, found their suspicions unfounded...
...sparsely settled jungle region in northern Petén. near the Mexican oilfields. Equipment will have to be flown or dragged in. Under the circumstances, Guatemalan requirements that each company drill at least one well every six months on each concession may be burdensome. Said Lionel Weidey, Jersey negotiator, "Guatemala's first barrel of export oil will cost $50 million...
FAIR-TRADE BATTLE is splitting state supreme courts. In Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, courts last week ruled in favor of fair trade (on cases involving General Electric and Bulova Watch Co.), thus making six (others: California, New Jersey, New York, Delaware) that have upheld the constitutionality of the 1952 McGuire Act. Five other state supreme courts (Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nebraska), plus some lower courts, have ruled against fair trade...
Born on the isle of Jersey in 1864, Elinor Sutherland and her sister were brought up there and in Canada by her soon-widowed mother and various in-laws. In backwoods Ontario, the Sutherland girls were schooled in French and all the social graces. A ferociously aristocratic grandmother was a martinet on bearing, forever challenged the girls: "How would [you] behave on the steps of the guillotine...