Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jersey, since 1764, Atlantic coastwise mariners have navigated by the gleam of the Sandy Hook lighthouse. Once in 1776 a U.S. Army captain smashed the light to hamper the movements of British ships. Last week, for the second time in 178 years, the dimout regulations doused the light again...
Because the regular stockmarket is too thin to handle big blocks of stock, two N.Y. Stock Exchange firms last week jumped into the over-the-counter market, sold 100,000 shares of Standard Oil of California, 115,000 shares of Standard of Jersey and 46,000 shares of American Tobacco B in two days. One result: a full day's business lost to the Exchange...
Died. Thomas Whitaker Trenchard, 78, onetime New Jersey Supreme Court Justice; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Trenton, N.J. A hater of capital punishment, he nevertheless sentenced Bruno Richard Hauptmann to the electric chair for the Lindbergh kidnapping...
...crowded Newark courtroom, Thomas F. Meaney last week took oath as Federal District Court Judge for New Jersey. Judge Guy L. Fake made a little speech of welcoming praise. Said Judge Meaney, with a moist eye, a lumped throat: "I can only say what is in my heart, and that is gratitude...
Barred from the courtroom was the unpleasant truth: that Judge Meaney was a protégé of notorious Jersey Boss Frank Hague, that he had been appointed by the President in a deal for Hague votes next fall, that the Senate had venally confirmed the venal appointment, despite an impassioned protest by venerable Senator George Norris. Less polite than the courtroom dialogue was George Norris's comment: "[If the nation were not busy with war] the Meaney nomination would spread over the country like wildfire, and would bring about the defeat of any official who had anything...