Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, June 1, published a brief story about a letter from a New Jersey woman to Senator W. Warren Barbour, upbraiding him for obtaining an X card for unlimited gasoline, to which the Senator replied by wire: APPRECIATE THOUGHTS GAS RATIONING. SOLUTION DUE SHORTLY TRANSPORTATION PIPE LINES. The Senator followed up his wire with a letter of explanation . . . part of which follows.—ED...
Very frankly, I received an X gasoline-rationing card from my local rationing board in New Jersey where I had filed my application for the card. In applying for this card it was necessary for me to keep in mind that I represented four and one half million constituents in New Jersey. If my car is used at all, it is used approximately 95% of the time in behalf of my constituents in trying to be of service to them...
...have an X card and I am not ashamed of having asked for one and I do believe, and I say this humbly, that by far and large the people of New Jersey have sufficient confidence in me to know that I am not going to abuse a privilege which I obtained only for one purpose, and that was to be able to continue my services to them at this time of grave emergency...
...Jersey's ex-Governor Harold Giles Hoffman, who shed nine pounds a week for four weeks to get into active duty as a major, made the grade on his second physical examination, was ordered to report at Colorado's Lowry Field this week...
...final break began last September. Murray was in Atlantic City, convalescing from a long illness. Lewis had clumped into the New Jersey resort, and during a boardwalk promenade had demanded that Murray turn against the Administration's foreign policy. Murray refused...