Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate considered President Eisenhower's nomination of William Joseph Brennan Jr. as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, McCarthy charged that the 50-year-old jurist had used the "privileged sanctuary" of the New Jersey Supreme Court "to conduct guerrilla warfare against anyone who would dare attempt to expose individual Communists." Patiently, his colleagues heard McCarthy out, then, with McCarthy voicing the single "no," confirmed the nomination by voice vote...
Fresh from a New Jersey village, the young Quaker girl seemed hopelessly out of place at the snobbish weekly. But from her very first day in 1895, the trim, bright-eyed mail clerk named Edna Woolman Martin somehow felt "a proprietary interest" in the affairs of Vogue as it chronicled the genteel caprices of New York society rounding out a comfortable century of progress and optimism...
...recent weeks political prosewriters have been in greater demand, at higher salaries, than ever before. With countywide primaries as well as Jersey City and Hoboken elections set for April...
...week newspaper job to work as a candidate's pressagent for $300 a week. Journal Editor Paul A. Tierney refused. "I won't stand for a wholesale raid on my staff," snapped Tierney, 62, who transferred from Newhouse's Long Island Star-Journal to the Jersey Journal only eight months...
PENNY STOCK SWINDLE has resulted in conviction of high-pressure Jersey City Broker Walter Tellier (TIME, May 7). Federal Court jury in Brooklyn found that Tellier and two officers of bankrupt Alaska Telephone Corp. swindled 1,400 investors out of $900,000 by boilershop selling of Alaska debentures. Tellier can get up to five years in penitentiary and $180,000 in fines...