Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contacted by telephone at her home in New Jersey, Mrs. Bunting was similarly non-commital. She did say that she knew she had been "considered" for the post--"along with a good many other people...
Despite his lively interest in women and wine, the Sultan brilliantly managed Johore, a jungle state the size of New Jersey with a population of nearly a million Malays, Indians and Chinese. When he took power in 1895 on the death of his father, the Sultan shifted the economy from opium and gambling to rubber. With other Malay states, Johore now produces one-third of the world's natural rubber. He angrily opposed self-rule for Malaya, outraged local nationalists by snapping: "It is all very well to clamor for independence, but where are your warships, your planes...
Faded Star. Its Jewishness has been systematically squelched. There has been no significant influx of the Soviet Union's 2,500,000 Jews since World War II. The total population of an area twice the size of New Jersey is barely 160,000, "half Jewish, two-thirds urban." Young Jews leave to seek better opportunities elsewhere; Frankel met one in the train who spoke with "contempt" of the city of Birobidzhan (pop. 60,000) as "a city of three streets...
Harold Gross, president of a Teamsters Local in Miami and a convicted extortionist, kept silent on testimony of other witnesses that he charged thousands of dollars to assure labor peace at a New Jersey commercial printing firm which turns...
...Varsity lacrosse team will face its toughest battle of the season when it meets Princeton's last year's Ivy league champions in New Jersey tomorrow afternoon. Rated as a Class A lacrosse team, the Crimson is Class B, Princeton held the highly rated University of Maryland to an 11-10 victory earlier this season...