Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albert Wahl Hawkes, 64, New Jersey, president of Congoleum-Nairn...
...York, California and Michigan. Although the Democrats still controlled Congress, States which will now be governed by Republicans have a population of 76 million and an easy majority in the electoral college. Down to defeat went such stalwart New Dealers as Oklahoma's Josh Lee and New Jersey's William H. Smathers, such New Deal sympathizers as Nebraska's venerable George Norris. The New Deal, on shaky ground since 1938, had now clearly fallen from its crest; if the conservative elements of the Democratic Party were eliminated, it would virtually become a minority party...
...recalled when it had been the other way round. Joe had grub staked them, paid their debts, put them to bed when they could not get there themselves, jacked them up with advice, taught them pinochle and penguingue (a Filipino game played with eight decks of cards). A New Jersey baker with a suspicion of tuberculosis, Joe went to work at the new Denver Press Club a few hours after he hit town...
Nightly a radio character called Symphony Sid, Your Narrator of Swing plugs the wares of half a dozen sponsors with such cryptic commercials. Lovers of swing tune in every evening on WHOM in Jersey City to listen to his After Hour Swing Session (11 p.m. to midnight, E.W.T...
...From New Jersey's industrial Hudson County, where disdainful Frank Hague rules like a dictator, came a shocking story of personal oppression. Eleven Negroes, ten women and a man, have languished for five months in the county jail without any charge against them, unable to see a lawyer, unable to see their families or friends-all because Frank Hague is out to get a political opponent...