Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aroused nation to take action-any action -met in haste. Georgia and West Virginia speedily passed soldier vote measures. The legislatures of Connecticut, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin called special January sessions. Arkansas nervously dusted off a 1923 law abolishing the poll tax for soldiers. New Jersey's Governor Charles Edison stepped forward with a scheme for mailing postcards to servicemen overseas...
...Imperial Oil (a subsidiary of Standard of New Jersey), which owned the Canadian oil lands leased only for the duration by the U.S., saw "very great difficulties" in the "feasibility and . . . expedition" of the plan. The plan proceeded, anyway...
...Under today's gentle blanket of beautiful snow lie hidden the special decorations which embellished the streets of Jersey City for the holiday season. Tomorrow the sun will shine and everything will sparkle, even last week's garbage...
Already elected to the new committee are Loyd Tingler of V-12, Eliot House, and Gallatin, Missouri; Frederick J. Carpenter of V-12, Eliot House, and Paterson, New Jersey; Rodney B. Perkins of V.12, Eliot House, and Brookline; Robert E. Philpot of V-12, Kirkland House, and Searsdale, New York; W. L. Jack Edwards of Adams House and Dallas, Texas; Stephen D. Becker of Adams House and Yonkers, New York; William Murphy and Robert W. Mullins of Dudley, the commuters' center; Victor J. Critchlow of Dunster House and Portland, Oregon; and Nathan Weston of Dunster House and Cambridge...
...last week most of the old crowd were already there. Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, the Joseph P. Kennedys, the Sumner Welleses, were at Palm Beach. Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague, with Mrs. Hague and daughter Peggy Anne, checked in at Miami Beach. So did the small-fry tourists, the race-track touts, the racketeers both gross and petty. The sub-urbane Town & Country told its readers that simply "everybody" came down before Christmas this year. Miami hotels, turned back to their owners by the Army, were booked solid all the way to the end of the winter season...