Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are many who argue that editors and reporters who don't pitch into service and charitable activities fail to get a real understanding of the communities they serve. When it comes to politics, there is less argument within the profession-a majority feel like the New Jersey editor who last week decided that the time had come to end a popular Jersey City practice whereby newsmen also serve politicians as ghost writers or pressagents. See PRESS, Should George Do It? and Speechless in Jersey...
...Voorhees, aided by a hard-working committee, quietly stitched away on the assignment for three months, then resigned because "the emergency phase" of Hungarian resettlement had ended. By last week it was clear how well Voorhees &.Co. had done their job: of the 29,000 Hungarians received at New Jersey's Camp Kilmer, 27,700 have been processed and sent, under sponsorship of voluntary civic and religious agencies, to their new lives in places ranging from New York City (with 1,824 resettled refugees) to San Marino, Calif, (with...
...Bailey was impatient to touch down. He had strong personal reasons: as a boy of twelve, he had seen his father, a broker, die at 42 of a lung hemorrhage, the direct result of heart disease. After what Bailey considers less than average preparation for such a post (New Jersey's Rutgers University, Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College, a year's internship, four years of general practice in Lakewood, N.J., two years of intensive lung surgery), he was placed in charge of chest surgery at Hahnemann in 1940. He is now professor and head of the department...
...Jersey's teeming (pop. 700,000) Hudson County, where annual county and city elections are among the liveliest in the U.S., newsmen who are willing to turn out speeches and publicity for political candidates have long found a rewarding short-term market for their talents. Reporters on Sam Newhouse's Jersey Journal (circ. 98,565) have enjoyed a virtual monopoly as political pressagents. The opposition Hudson Dispatch, the county's only other comparable pool of literary talent, has traditionally barred its employees from participating in political campaigns, while the Journal's policy has been to grant...
RAPID GROWTH in number of stockholders in Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), helped by three-for-one stock split last year, puts company in third place among U.S. companies with high est number of common share owners. Jersey Standard's new roster: 403,000 share owners v. American Telephone & Telegraph's 1,490,000, General Motors...