Word: jersey
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...grimy English town of Leeds in 1933-34, he concluded that management should do everything possible to prevent illness in workers, not just take care of them after they become sick. He put some of his ideas into practice as medical director of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey from 1946 until 1955. Said he: "It is not uncommon to find an executive who worries more about tire replacement on his fleet of trucks than the health of his employees...
Allin's speech, apparently designed to calm the dissidents, served to inflame supporters of women's rights. "Many of my people are discouraged and despondent." reported Bishop Robert Rusack of Los Angeles. A caucus of women activists in New York and New Jersey, including the wife of Newark's assistant bishop, sent a telegram urging the acceptance of Allin's resignation offer. Perhaps mindful that opponents are ready to walk out and women are not, the bishops took a tolerant view of the dissidents. They passed a freedom-of-conscience clause specifying that no one should...
...Tigers went at it in New Jersey against Colgate, a pseudo-Ivy League team, and came up on the short end of a 31-13 score. The Red Raiders are now 5-0 on the season and lead all eastern teams in line for the Lambert Trophy...
...acclaim abroad to return home in the early 1940s and take up the grueling, uphill fight for racial equality and justice in his native America. But here, at 60, Robeson is thinking back to his childhood; to what it was to grow up in lily-white, aristocratic Princeton, New Jersey, in the small enclave of black laborers and domestics that centered largely around his father's church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion. "In a way I was 'adopted' by all these good people," Robeson remembers, "...There was the honest joy of laughter in these homes, folk...
...stretched his horizons further and further outward, crossing oceans, making friends, disarming bigots with his undeniable talent and charm. He strove to make first the white world, then the international cultural world, every bit as much his home as the living rooms of his poor black relatives in New Jersey...