Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limited to three hours. Most speeches were highly emotional. Said South Carolina's Democratic Representative Mendel Rivers: "I believe while this thing is fraught with danger, it is far more dangerous to be guilty of inaction than to be guilty of action. I believe in action." Cried New Jersey's Democratic Representative Alfred Sieminski: "Does mainland China want Japan on Formosa? Does Russia want Japan in Korea? That is the issue both face. It seems to me that memories of the past should remind Peking and Moscow that they have never had it so good in the Pacific...
...East Falls, across the Schuylkill River from the Main Line, was the meeting place for the whole neighborhood. "There was a lawn out back with swings and a sandbox, a tennis court and the usual things like that," says Grace. Summers, the Kelly family had a house on the Jersey shore at Ocean City. As regularly as she marched the children to St. Bridget's Roman Catholic Church every Sunday, Mrs. Kelly marched them off to the Penn Athletic Club for workouts. "There's a certain discipline in athletic work," says Mrs. Kelly. "That's why Grace...
...Thomas-"or, as my friends suggest, for Tummy") James Tumulty, 41, is a beefy, bumptious New Jersey politician* whose oratory has a Jersey bounce ("If I must kiss a rump, let it be the biggest in town") and whose party loyalties have a two-way stretch (he has been a Democrat, a Republican, a Democrat again, a good friend and hot opponent of Democratic Boss Frank Hague, a warm supporter of Dwight Eisenhower, Estes Kefauver and Joe McCarthy). Last week freshman Congressman Tumulty (currently a Democrat) faced a problem. He had gained 30 pounds during last fall's campaign...
...Pont, a longtime giver, now pours $2,500 grants into the chemistry departments of 50 different campuses, expects to give in various ways $800,000 this year. The Radio Corp. of America will pay for 26 scholarships (at $800) this year, and last year Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) spread $450,000 over 138 campuses plus $50,000 for the National Fund for Medical Education. Union Carbide's plan: $50,000 for 400 scholarships to more than 30 colleges...
...vice-presidency of the Council fell to Albert B. Levin '56, of Kirkland House and East Orange, New Jersey, James G. Hatcher, Jr. '56, of Dunster House and Morton, Illinois, was elected secretary, and Edward M. Abramson '57, of Lowell House and New Rochelle, New York, will be the new treasurer...