Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...active House Committees is that on the Election of President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress. Its most significant chore this century was steering the Norris Lame Duck Amendment in 1932. One of the most active House Committees is that on Labor. Last fortnight a widow of 62, New Jersey's Mary Teresa Norton, succeeded to the chair of the Labor Committee and last week another widow of 62, New York's Caroline Goodwin O'Day, succeeded to the chair of the Election Committee...
Hour-limiting work laws for New Jersey females, including the 1923 law, which had no enforcing penalties, have exempted employes in the New Jersey canning industry. In the recent legislative session a new law was passed exempting the canneries but otherwise prohibiting the working of women between midnight and 7 a. m., with $25 to $50 fines for first offenses, $200 for second, jail for recalcitrants. Harkening to pleas of the South Jersey glassmakers and Atlantic City hotel and restaurant owners, Republican Senator Charles E. Loizeaux rushed through a last-minute measure to extend the exemptions. Last fortnight somebody discovered...
...similar courtesy was extended to ailing Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty of Cities Service Co., who got an LL.D. from Temple University in his sickroom at Temple Hospital in Philadelphia. Most spectacular conjunction was the LL.D. bestowed on Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt by John Marshall College of Law in Jersey City, N. J. Greatest celebrity beat was scored by little Elmira College (Elmira, N. Y.), which gave its Litt.D.'s to Novelist Carl Carmer (Stars Fell on Alabama), Actress Helen Hayes and (by proxy) Actress Katharine Cornell...
...they could before spurting again. This maneuver was supposed to save gasoline, which was not to be obtained at all. Reason: 18,000 members of Mexico's Syndicate of Petroleum Workers, settling into their second week of strike against Royal Dutch Shell, Standard Oil of New Jersey and 15 other Foreign companies, had shut Mexico's $500,000,000 oil industry down as tight as a petroleum drum...
...stanch believers in the committee as an administrative form are Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In operating efficiency the two show considerable variation. Dating back to the days when the late John Davison Rockefeller met almost daily with his partners to chart the devious course of the old Oil Trust, Standard's devotion to committees is even carried into executive functions. Standard's president is chief executive officer but there is also an active, working chairman. For a long time this executive team has been President Walter Clark Teagle and Chairman...