Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, George Hopper, a meat packer from East St. Louis, Ill., hopped into the Hudson River, arms handcuffed behind him, and towed a canoe and two passengers six miles (swimming upstream) to the Jersey shore. Motive: he hoped to earn himself an invitation for a paid TV appearance to help pay for "surgery" for his two sons...
...vote on an amendment to the foreign-aid bill offered by Majority Leader William Knowland. The amendment called for drastic action: it would cut off military aid to France and Italy on Dec. 31 unless they ratified EDC or agreed with other NATO powers on a satisfactory substitute. New Jersey's Republican Senator H. Alexander Smith, acting as chairman, was sure that the committee would approve Knowland's proposal. Then Smith checked with Secretary Dulles...
...result, when our country is faced with its greatest crisis, and unity and confidence in each other and in our Government and its leaders are essential to our survival, Senator McCarthy has become a deeply divisive force. * New Jersey Republicans were divided on what effect Case's declaration would have on his chances in the doubtful state of New Jersey. Some G.O.P. county chairmen thought it helped him, others thought it hurt him. Nevertheless, it was a statement Case felt he had to make. Said he: "No honest candidate can straddle the McCarthy issue...
...Canal System, part of an Indian-financed, U.S.-engineered $327 million hydroelectric-irrigation project. Starting in the Himalayan foothills where the Sutlej River pours onto the plains, the project has more than 4,500 miles of canals, will eventually distribute water through an area twice the size of New Jersey, some of it in chronic famine...
Died. Frank Hague Eggers. 53, onetime (1947-49) mayor of raucous Jersey City; of a stroke; in Jersey City. Tenderly nursed in politics by his uncle, Boss ("I am the law") Hague, Eggers cut his political teeth on city and county judgeships, served four years as Hague's personal secretary, was appointed (and later elected) to the city commission, then, when Hague stepped aside in 1947, to the mayoralty. In 1949, with Eggers in charge, the Hague machine collapsed at the polls, stayed collapsed despite Eggers' comeback attempt last year...