Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the fiery little Mayor ran bookmakers out of Times Square, they simply moved across the Hudson River to New Jersey, kept their Manhattan phone numbers, hired special trunk lines so that their patrons could still call them for a nickel. Last week the Mayor finally got the telephone company to discontinue the lines. The only noticeable result, as noted by cynical New York Mirror Sportswriter Dan Parker: "Bookmakers' clerks . . . [have] writer's cramp from notifying their clients by mail every day what the new telephone number...
...sunshine warmed the Mayor's crusade last week. When he heard that the Parent-Teacher Association of Public Schoo! 99 was conducting a raffle for a $25 war bond, he quickly stopped it. The Parent-Teacher Association was loth to move to New Jersey or get a court order, so his ruling stuck...
...smashing defeat his machine took in the election (TIME, Nov. 16), New Jersey's Democratic Boss Frank Hague had a new headache last week. His own Jersey City, where he has been Mayor for 25 years, was going broke so fast that there was no use pretending any longer...
...paternalistic city government is the most expensive in the U.S. (annual budget: $44,000,000), considering that only 301,000 citizens have to support it. Boss Hague once got great hunks of revenue by soaking his city's railroads at treble the usual U.S. rates. But New Jersey's steady-going Governor Charles Edison put a stop to that. Now a county tax board appointed by Governor Edison-after he kicked out a Hague-controlled board on charges of misconduct-is trying to bring some logic into Jersey City's inflated property-tax assessments...
...tones of a tortured saint, Frank Hague cried last week: "If the county board is permitted to go through with this program it will mean the destruction of the financial stability of Jersey City. . . .The ultimate result will be the closing of the Medical Center, the closing of 50% of our schools, the reduction of our police and fire departments by one-half...