Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Lippmann, the New York Times's Simeon Strunsky and Arthur Krock, Newscaster Lowell Thomas (M.A. '16), Pollster George H. Gallup, Critic Carl Van Doren, Under Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal (ex-'15), Civilian Defense Director James M. Landis ('21), New Jersey's Governor Charles Edison...
...third all-star game, at Buffalo, was the first ever played in the minor International League. Contestants were its "northern" (Montreal, Toronto, Rochester, Buffalo) and "southern" (Newark, Jersey City, Syracuse, Baltimore) teams. There, too, the game was clinched in the first inning. Led by Newark's George Stirnweiss and Baltimore's Hank Edwards, the southerners pounded four northern pitchers for eleven hits...
...larger. McNutt is pessimistic about the chances of doing anything much about the New York situation, because the Army is reluctant to place important war contracts in an area so vulnerable. A peculiar feature of the situation is that serious labor shortages exist in Connecticut, Long Island, and New Jersey, but New Yorkers have trouble getting jobs there. Cause of the trouble, says McNutt: a combination of anti-Jewish prejudice, dislike of "city slickers," and the New Yorkers' ingrained reluctance to leave their city...
Oliver D. Filley, Jr., of Eliot House and Bernardsville, New Jersey, and Thomas V. Keene, Jr., of Winthrop and Indianapolis, Indiana, were elected as Sophomore representatives on the Student Council for the summer session, Council President Thomas Matters '43 announced last night...
When Hays led his civil-liberties parades against Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City (1938), he met his match. Hays wanted Hague's police to jail him (to create an issue). Instead, a disobliging cop simply hustled him along the street. Hays "managed to blurt out: 'All right, as long as you push, I'll go.' " But there wasn't much fun in that. Hays came back a few days later to orate against Hague from the top of an automobile. It was no use. Mayor Hague was too smart to play...