Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barrel-chested ex-bartender who knows that there is more than one use for a bung-starter. A New Jersey Governor once described him as "one of the real forces in American life." Mr. Fay's forcefulness became a matter of interest to a grand jury in Syracuse...
This action looked to many a citizen like a dangerous precedent. Said the Wall Street Journal, demanding to know by what authority of law the Army acted: "It exhales a distinctly arbitrary flavor. . . . The matter is of vital importance in a country [whose] civil system ... is founded on law." Jersey Congressman J. Parnell Thomas sent a telegram to President Roosevelt asking why, if Air Associates' management was deposed, John L. Lewis should not be removed as head of United Mine Workers...
Last of the 35,000-tonners (Alabama) will be launched in three months. The battlewagons that will follow her will be still more fearsome. Two (Iowa and New Jersey) will displace 45,000 tons. Two others now on the ways (Missouri and Wisconsin) will be still bigger. Planned but not yet on the ways are seven more. Two will be 45,000 tons or bigger; the other five will be the biggest, most powerful ever launched-58,000 tons. The Big Five (Montana, Ohio, Maine, New Hampshire and Louisiana) will not be laid down until oversize ways have been prepared...
...climbed 20 feet underground, and there she was. Waving flashlights, crying "So boss," they backed the baffled animal through the echoing pipes, eventually got her turned around, past the Newark line, and out into the open air. All told, the cow had covered some twelve miles of cloacal New Jersey...
...announcing the election of the following officers to next year's executive board: Paul C. Sheeline '43, of Winthrop House and Newton, as President; Charles S. Borden '43, of Eliot House and Washington, D. C., as Managing Editor; Oliver R. B. Stalter '43, of Kirkland House and Newark, New Jersey, as Business Manager; George R. Clay '43, of 44 Mt. Auburn Street' '43, of Belmont, as Executive Editor; William H. Forster '44, of Lowell House and Philadelphia, as Photographic Chairman; and A. Edward Rowse '43, of Adams House and Lexington, as Sports Editor...