Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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States that should have given the most gave the least: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Alabama, the District of Columbia. The five highest contributors on a per-head basis were Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Washington. The New Jersey per capita average was a mere 1.67 lb.; Nevada patriots averaged...
...question before the Senate was whether or not to approve President Roosevelt's nomination of Federal Judge Thomas F. Meaney, henchman of New Jersey's strident Boss Frank Hague (TIME, May 18). Only there was no question. In the Senatorial gentlemen's club, there was no chance of blocking the appointment, and old George Norris knew it. Nevertheless Norris rose to speak his mind: to indict political machines such as Hague's and political deals like the Meaney affair...
Condemnation and Shame. Said George Norris: "The confirmation or rejection of the nomination of Mr. Meaney is a national question. It is not a local question; it is not a question affecting New Jersey alone, but it is a question affecting the entire United States. The question involved is whether the Hague machine, which is one of the most disreputable, demagogic political machines that ever existed, shall extend its power beyond New Jersey and take in the Federal Government...
...even bothered to answer the voice of ancient virtue. Up rose New Jersey's ruddy, Hague-dealing Senator William Smathers, who needs Hague's support in order to get re-elected this autumn. Said Smathers smoothly: "In the interest of bringing on a speedy vote, I shall deny myself the pleasure of the two-hour speech I have here." The vote to confirm Meaney...
...story of The Unvanquished is the story of Washington's growth in clarity and unity during the critical fortnight when his shattered forces ("an alien army in an alien land") retreated across New Jersey. "On the bleak road he now traveled a fortitude was required that could draw no sustenance from the past. . . . All that mattered now was to exist...