Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John R. Longo is a shrill, splenetic young New Jersey citizen who hates arrogant Boss Frank Hague to the point of doing something about it. He once served seven months in jail when he got too enthusiastic about collecting signatures of voters (some of them nonexistent) in a primary fight against Hague. Fortnight ago he was convicted again-in Hudson County, where Mayor Hague appoints the judges-this time for altering his voting record. The evidence, as presented in court, was all against him. But New Jersey's Hague-hating Governor Charles Edison cried: "Persecution . . . outrage!" Then Governor Edison...
...last week, for a few breathless hours, it seemed that Leon Henderson might return to the national scene. From Washington and Atlantic City came reports that New Jersey's Governor Charles Edison might appoint Leon to succeed New Jersey's late Senator W. Warren Barbour. Said Leon Henderson, practically wrapping the toga about his bulky frame: "I was urged to run in 1942 and always have understood that I would be highly satisfactory to Governor Edison, to labor, and to other groups, including Mayor Hague...
...their tonal quality. At Thomas Edison's funeral he played the inventor's favorite,I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen. He is now executive vice president of Thomas A. Edison Inc. and a director of six Edison subsidiaries. His appointment brought praise even from New Jersey's Republican Senator Albert W. Hawkes. From the tight-lipped Hague organization: no comment. From Leon Henderson: "It's terrible to be the world's best economist and be known only for your rumba...
...anesthetic, three to five times as powerful as ether, has been developed by Dr. John Christian Krantz, professor of pharmacology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. It is called pro-pethylene (chemical name: isopropenyl vinyl ether). Last fortnight Dr. Krantz told the New Jersey section of the American Chemical Society that propethylene is superior to ether, the anesthetists' standby...
...Indiana's Stanolind paid the U.S. Government $1.407,500 for drilling rights on 262½acres of Federal land in Elk Basin-the highest price ever bid for the privilege of putting a drill bit into the ground. Last month Carter Oil, subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, bought out Denver's Minnelusa Oil Corp., the original discoverer of the Tensleep sands...