Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Edison (see cut), ex-Governor of New Jersey, son of the late, great Thomas Alva Edison, was elected national chairman by United China Relief. As head of the fund which in 1943 sent $8,683,870 to war-torn China, onetime Secretary of the Navy Edison succeeds the late Manhattan Lawyer Frederick Hill (Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine &) Wood. Said Edison: "The Chinese people have purchased time for all their allies with space of their country and blood of their people...
...Jersey's new, broom-wielding Governor Walter Evans Edge struck a blow at the very vitals of the kakistocracy* in Democratic Boss Frank Hague's Hudson County. He signed into law a bill passed by the Republican-dominated legislature, compelling Hudson County to install voting machines in each of its 658 election districts. To Hudson County dwellers, who have known only the juggernaut Hague machine (X marks the voter, dead or alive) for 27 years, this was a shock. No longer will Boss Hague be able to sit back on election night, wait until all other Jersey votes...
...accordance with Order Number 24 received last week, 21 ASTP Signal Corps men left Friday for the Signal Corps camp at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey...
...battleships, the Iowa and New Jersey. (Launched fortnight ago was their sister, the Missouri...
...Burk was a lanky, wide-eyed New Jersey kid who couldn't keep away from water. In the time he could spare from helping his father raise apples and peaches, he learned to row, eventually became the world's sculling champion. War brought Joe, appropriately, to the Navy. The Navy made him an officer and skipper of a speedy PT boat...