Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called over to Torby. "Hey, Flash, a hand with this shirt." Torby came over and yanked the jersey into place over the shoulder pads, so that big "52" slid down somewhere between his shoulder blades. He turned and grinned at Torby. Torby looked a little anxious. Tom whispered over...
...students who come from New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania will find that when they come home for the turkey next Thursday they will be a week late. These Middle Atlantic states are among the twenty-two that are celebrating Thanksgiving today...
Last week the air was filled with straws in the political wind, blowing in all directions. Gusty or strong, or just an off-year breeze, the wind ebbed and eddied over Ohio, California, the cities of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. Although local crosscurrents were set up, the general direction was Right, the temperature generally warmer...
...Detroit, a new mayor-young Edward Jeffries-was elected with C.I.O. backing. In San Francisco, Mayor Angelo Rossi was re-elected over a New Deal Congressman who had the support of Harry Bridges and the C.I.O. Republican victories in Pennsylvania and New Jersey brought a bugle blast of triumph from National Chairman John Hamilton; Democrats did not whoop so over a minor Tammany victory in New York City, or the expected Kentucky election of Governor Keen Johnson. Said Jim Farley: "The results are entirely satisfactory from a Democratic point of view...
...hold the easy pickings of bootlegging, the U. S. underworld went to war. It was an internecine affair of ambush and the double cross. Along Jersey highways from the shore, where rum runners landed their cargoes, runners and highjackers fought it out in the night. In New York City, men were shot discreetly in basement saloons. In Detroit and St. Louis, guns banged on street corners, men died at high noon...