Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavyweights chose Townsend S. Swayze '59 of Massachusetts Hall and Hamburg, New Jersey, who graduated from Westminster School...
...that puffy remnant of a great champ. Later, he won the title by flattening Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott in the 13th round, after being knocked down in the third for the first time in his professional life. In a return bout, it took him only one round to stop Jersey...
Over Manhattan television and radio stations, in full-page newspaper ads and in big-scale direct mail promotions, Jersey City Broker Walter F. Tellier plugged his penny uranium stocks as "a ground-floor opportunity," "the best buy in 20 years." "You can't lose-you're investing in a sure thing," his high-pressure salesmen promised investors. With this glib spiel, Tellier, one of the biggest over-the-counter dealers in the U.S., since 1951 lured in 50,000 buyers of shares in Utah's Consolidated Uranium Mines Inc. He said that Consolidated had 85,000 acres...
...relations with non-academic people who considered that Princeton was giving a soap-box to a convicted perjurer capable of "charming and deceiving" gullible undergraduates. This view, unhappily, was supported by the popular press and two Congressmen who had no connection with the University except that they represented New Jersey districts...
...implications when they met April 19. By a vote of 26 to 4, they agreed to allow the Hiss invitation to stand, but voiced unanimously their "disapproval of the students" who offered the bid. In its action, the Board disregarded blasts from several influential alumni, including a north New Jersey group which noted in a Princetonian advertisement that the controversy was hurting Princeton's Annual Giving program...