Word: jersey
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Labor itself, by its incredibly crude tactics, seemed determined to achieve precisely the tough reform bill it was fighting. Among the House conferees was New Jersey Democrat Frank Thompson, regarded as a close friend to labor-although not to Jimmy Hoffa's racket-riddled International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In working for a middle-road labor bill, Thompson had won the enmity of Hoffa's top lobbyist, blundering, blunderbussing Sidney Zagri. Soon after Zagri denounced Thompson as an enemy to labor, Thompson began getting threatening telephone calls, finally reported them to the FBI. Driving to the Capitol one morning...
...first Northern chance to hit back came last week, when North Carolina Democrat Howard Cooley offered an amendment to increase by $200 million the bartering provisions on farm-surplus shipments abroad. Northern Democrats joined Republicans in opposition and Cooley's amendment got slaughtered, 143 to 52. New Jersey's Frank Thompson expressed the feelings of most Northern Representatives when he told Cooley: "Harold, from now on I'm against anything that grows." On that basis, the House vote on the Landrum-Griffin bill may be remembered long for political results that have no apparent connection with labor...
...change them, their faces and necks showed bright red acid burns; 38 were affected, one had to be hospitalized. Because aqua regia attacks pipes and pumps so avidly, it took three days to find resistant equipment to load it into a tank truck for neutralization and disposal in New Jersey...
...advertise. But cheaper oil flooded in from neighboring nations and Iron Curtain lands. Small, noncartel companies cut oil prices as low as $15 per ton, tripled their market share to 25%. Last week giant Esso A.G., a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), alarmed because its share of the market had dropped from 35% to 25%, stomped out of the cartel rig; out followed Shell, Mobil Oil, British Petroleum...
Died. Mary Teresa Norton, 84, buxom, bustling New Jersey Congresswoman for 26 years (1925-51), first woman Democrat elected to Congress (first Congresswoman: Montana's Republican Jeannette Rankin-1917-19, 1941-43), a scrappy debater, called by her respectful colleagues "Aunt Mary," who championed her political sponsor, New Jersey Boss Frank Hague, and social legislation; in Greenwich, Conn. An ardent New Dealer, she fought tooth and nail for the 1938 wage-hour bill, chairmaned the House Labor Committee from 1937-47, insisted on her dignity and equality in the halls of Congress (once when a House member referred...