Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Means Rubber. Rubber was inexpressibly precious. Citizens racked their brains for makeshifts: in New Jersey, Postman Charles Kaiser used dime-store shoe soles as recaps, got 1,200 miles from them (see cut). The Army had already begun shifting from rubber tank treads to steel treads, which are not as good, but replaceable. Drastic steps were necessary, and would certainly be invoked-such as commandeering tire stockpiles, the requisition of civilian cars, a further abandonment of duplicating bus lines...
...other men when he is obligated to a political boss.... Still worse, it seems to me, would be a judge long associated with and long beholden to a man who says that and acts as if the law begins and ends with himself." So wrote Governor Edison of New Jersey...
...elected next fall, New Jersey's ruddy, sleek Senator William H. Smathers must have the help of Boss Frank Hague. So Smathers recently backed Hague's man Thomas F. Meaney for a Federal judgeship. And, although Senator Smathers has not distinguished himself in the Senate, President Roosevelt, who wants 100% New Dealers reelected, obligingly appointed Meaney (TIME, May 18). The deal was a piece of routine politics...
...Jersey's handsome, aristocratic, hard-of-hearing Governor Charles Edison is no routine politician. Independently wealthy as head of his father's "Edison Industries," he went into public life to earn his pay, not just to get it. He was made Assistant Secretary of the Navy by his great & good friend Franklin Roosevelt, later ran for Governor in 1940 as a personal favor to the President. As Governor, he has waged a bitter, housecleaning battle to purify New Jersey politics by sweeping out the ubiquitous Hague cockroaches...
Though his mother back in New Jersey had worn black for a month, Michael Wajda, ship's electrician, was not dead. While the raft under him drifted in the doldrums, he clung to life, alternately raved, mumbled and lay insensate under the equatorial sun. Last week came word that after 46 days on the flotsam-cradling sea he had been picked up near Georgetown, British Guiana, was recovering in a hospital there...