Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Pearl Harbor, the Office of War Information gravely announced last week, the Army and Navy have bought or are engaged in buying private property equal to the combined areas of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, the District of Columbia and four-fifths of New Jersey. The Army's total property holdings alone are now 23,437 square miles, equivalent in area to almost half of England's or twice the whole of Belgium...
...Thayer Drake, of Chatman, New Jersey, and Winthrop House, was elected captain of the 1943 Varsity soccer team at a meeting of lettermen in Dillon Field House yesterday. Drake, inside forware on this year's eleven, received the post following two seasons on the first squad, and one as standout on the '40 Yardling aggregation...
Then, in a peroration calculated to bring tears to the eyes of a brass monkey, the Mayor pointed to his 30 years of serving Jersey City "faithfully and honorably," pleaded with his citizens "to continue the confidence in me and my associates," promised that fate would vindicate his administration "because our cause is just and our courts are honest...
Governor Edison replied: "For a long time past the city of Jersey City has given the appearance of solvency only through resort to bookkeeping sleight of hand and other methods that in commercial life are termed 'high finance...
...individualists and became one himself, a rebel among rebels. He was a star pupil at Tennessee's famed Webb School, breezed through Tulane in three years, went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Then he turned itinerant pedagogue (successively at Webb School, the University of Chicago, Nebraska, New Jersey College for Women, Rollins, Black Mountain...