Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Hamilton Fish Kean, 79, wealthy ex-Senator from New Jersey (1929-35), banker, utilitycoon; in Manhattan. He held his first and only public office when he became Senator...
Beatrice Clough Rathbone, visiting woman M.P., admired a V-for-Victory tie around the neck of New Jersey's Congressman Gordon Canfield in the House restaurant. Canfield promptly yanked it off, thrust it upon...
...even in New England and New Jersey, the program was confused, uncoordinated. In isolated communities, far from dense, industrial targets, women drove furiously around in motor caravans, practiced jumping into fire nets. Energy was scattered in all directions. Unwieldy and sometimes senseless organizations were...
Most elaborate-sometimes over-elaborate-jobs of preparing for civilian defense were under way in New England and New Jersey's suburbs, where small towns had taken affairs into their own hands. There local civilian defense councils had organized men & women into first aid, feeding, fire fighting, decontamination, salvage and emergency police units, air-raid wardens, messengers, even intelligence divisions. Serious small townsmen practiced pistol shooting, sniffed gas, spelled each other through 24-hour days watching for airplanes and flashing reports of everything in the skies to Army Information centers...
Before the hearing was over, Frank Cohen had been forced to admit that he was once indicted in New Jersey, that he had been denounced by the New York State insurance commissioner, that Massachusetts' insurance commissioner had called him "the mad dog of insurance." The committee granted that Empire was indeed turning out the arms it had contracted to make. As to the rest of Cohen's story, the committee was dubious...