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Word: jerseyed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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During this week three National Guard division commanders were relieved. These orders were news. Many another officer of lesser rank got local publicity when he was turned out, went home feeling disgraced. Extreme result of one such instance: a veteran lieutenant colonel of the New Jersey National Guard, father of two volunteer non-commissioned officers, went home and killed himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: The Ax Falls | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...Woollcott could not deflate himself as a hero without triumphing once more as a raconteur. He told how he had "pricked up these old ears" in a London police station at the accent of the boy ahead of him, found he was 21-year-old Steve Traski from Jersey City, who had shipped three times out of Halifax, been torpedoed twice before he finally got to London to enlist with the Free French. His parents were Czechs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: From London | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

This tale of humble guts was related with the familiar Woollcott graces, the cheerfully dry eye, the careful throb. In Jersey City, Mayor Frank Hague, listening, sent a police car around to tell the boy's mother that he was safe. Woollcott had landed and the human interest situation was well in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: From London | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...Paris, moved to French Morocco for the duration. With the Newport season nearly over, Torchsinger Gertrude Niesen spent a night in her new $2,500,000 mansion, registered in town as a permanent resident. Negro Composer Clinton Brewer (Stampede in G Minor), who spent 19 years in a New Jersey prison for killing his wife, and was pardoned last summer because of his music, took up a new career as an arranger for CBS and Count Basic's band. Last week his new career ended abruptly. He was locked up because his lady love, Wilhelmina Washington, was found dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 20, 1941 | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...last week Jersey Standard's tough president, William S. Parish, spokesman for all of the U.S. companies, answered Cordell Hull's proposal with a flat No. He recalled that Mr. Hull himself had insisted, as recently as last year, that expropriation amounted to outright confiscation unless "adequate, effective and prompt compensation" was paid. Real-politiker finally persuaded Mr. Hull that "international law" was not always compatible with Good Neighbor necessities. But Mr. Parish stood firm on the high ground that Hull had once occupied: he demanded arbitration followed by restitution or full payment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Face-Saving Dilemma | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

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