Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Joseph Hague Jr., lanky, 40-year-old son of Jersey City's arrogant boss, quit his $9,000 judgeship in New Jersey's highest court (Errors and Appeals), landed a new job. Appointed judge in 1939 by Hagueman Governor A. Harry Moore (who remarked at the time, "I know this will make his dad happy"), young Frank had no chance at reappointment by G.O.P. Governor Walter Edge, snapped at an offer to do legal work in New Dealer Leo Crowley's Foreign Economic Administration. New salary bracket: $3,600 to $4,200 yearly...
...ruddy-faced fighting man had said it for all as the train was rattling across the Jersey meadows that morning. He pressed close to the window and his eyes followed one spot on the moving, snow-covered landscape...
...their annual award shocked them down to the very roots of their well-bred bunions. ... A last-hour disqualification, based on the charge that [Mama] Lisanti had insulted one of the judges, sidetracked [Lois] in favor of Miss Dorothy Ritterbush . . . whose father is wealthy and entertains lavishly at his Jersey estate...
Traitor's Progress. William Curtis Colepaugh, his renegade companion, was a weak-faced, gangling young man who had grown up in Connecticut, had somehow developed a sentimental sense of attachment to "beautiful Germany." He had graduated from Farragut Academy in New Jersey, flunked out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Grabbed later as a draft dodger, he joined the Navy, put on such a show of love for the Germans that the Navy discharged him. From then on, it was easy-for a while. Colepaugh sailed to Europe as a messboy on the diplomatic exchange liner Gripsholm, jumped ship...
There has been much ado about the postwar schooling of G. I. Joes, but very little about the prospects for some 185,000 G. I. Janes. Many of them too are eligible for free training, under the G. I. Bill of Rights. Last week the New Jersey College for Women (Rutgers University) was well on its way with a program especially designed for Jane's plans and pocketbook...