Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprise of no one at the university, New Jersey's Rutgers last week named Dr. Mason Welch Gross, 47, best known for his off-campus success as a TV answer man, as its new president. Big (6 ft. 3 in., 197 Ibs.), mild, mustached Philosophy Teacher Gross joined the 14,000-student university in 1946, has served as provost, vice president and acting president since the school's former head, Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, resigned last August...
...Jersey state mediation board. The tall professor studied at Harvard, Cambridge and the University of Aberdeen, did combat intelligence work during World War II as a captain in the Army Air Force...
Died. Abner ("Longie") Zwillman, 54, called by the FBI the "leader of the New Jersey underworld''; by his own hand (hanging) ; in his 20-room mansion in West Orange, N.J. Longie Zwillman, who once used the alias George Long, came out of Newark slums to become a rich and famed Jazz Age bootlegger, peer and sometime friend of the best names in the blue book of U.S. crime: Dutch Schultz. Louis (Lepke) Buchalter. Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Al Capone. In 1951 New York City's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer linked...
...industrial town of Granite City, 111. Mitchell is keenly aware that production has bounced back from the recession faster than employment. Result: highest January unemployment (4,724,000) since World War II's start, including 9.3% of the work force jobless in the most densely industrial state, New Jersey...
...ensign, participated in the invasions of Guam, Saipan and the Philippines, served as operations officer for the Seventh Fleet air arm, was discharged in 1945 as a lieutenant commander, and returned to Dillon, Read as chairman of the board. An active Republican, Dillon was elected to the New Jersey Republican State Committee. In 1951 he helped organize the New Jersey Republicans for Eisenhower in the bitter preconvention campaign. After election President Eisenhower named Dillon U.S. Ambassador to France. Dillon was widely traveled in France, spoke French fluently (although he continued, as ambassador, to take an hour's instruction daily...