Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jane's Fighting Ships for 1942, published in London last week, gave the U. S. Navy the lead in capital ships-with 21 now or soon in service.* Included: six of the 35,000-ton class (Washington, North Carolina, etc.), two 45,000-tonners (Iowa and New Jersey) due to be commissioned. Not included: battleships being repaired at Pearl Harbor, twelve large carriers reported completed. The bible of the world's navies calls U.S. building of cruisers, destroyers and submarines "scarcely less remarkable...
Effa's Eagles. Best-heeled of the Negro majors are the Newark Eagles, owned by a hula-hipped Harlem beauty named Effa Manley. Effa received the club as a present from her husband, a onetime Jersey big shot. She appointed herself field manager, until recently directed her players from the dugout in a manner that would have tickled the late great John McGraw...
...could have knocked Frank Hague over with a split ballot. In his 26 years as Mayor of Jersey City, he had done more than his bit to establish himself as the U. S.'s prime suppressor of civil liberties. His hired thugs made an almost ceremonial fox hunt out of chasing labor organizers and, especially, Communists out of town. Now the Communists swore they loved him. The U. S. press laughed itself silly...
This stunning turnabout was official. William Norman, executive secretary of the New Jersey Communist Party, made the statement in the Daily Worker, Manhattan's mouthpiece for the U. S. Communist Party. Cooed he: ". . . Outworn conceptions, if carried over to other historical periods, can prove of incalculable harm to the cause of progress and the chief issue today, the nation's war. Such a misconception continues to exist with regard to Frank Hague and so-called Hagueism...
...reasoning behind the Worker's sudden affection for Boss Hague is that he is a stanch supporter of Franklin Roosevelt, who is winning the war. New Jersey will choose a new governor next fall and he must be a Democrat, to silence the "copperheads" and "labor defeatists" who are angry with the President. And Boss Hague is still the boss of New Jersey...