Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank ("I-Am-the-Law") Hague, Boss-Mayor of Jersey City, loves to be dramatic. He is dramatic about motherhood (he has never been a mother), about Jersey City (a dreary spot), about collars (oldfashioned, stiff ones), about grammar (his is bad). Last week, with a loud, red face, he got dramatic about New Jersey's Governor Edison. For the Governor had signed a bill that hit Hague where it hurt most-the pocketbook...
...assault on Hague's domination of the State government, the bill waived payment by railroads of $17,000,000 in interest and penalties on tax bills, settled a much-argued suit by accepting $34,000.000 in installments. Worse still, the bill poked at the shaky financial setup of Jersey City by providing that railroads shall hereafter pay taxes on a more flexible basis. Boss Hague's paternalistic government of Jersey City is the most expensive in the U.S., and he needs the heavy municipal taxes (three times higher per mile than in any other State) paid by railroads...
Boss Hague has been accustomed to hand-pick New Jersey's Governors, but he did not hand-pick Edison. And the Boss is well aware that the Governor does not like the smell of Haguery in Jersey...
...Army outfit that is celebrated neither for its morale nor for its soldierly qualities is the 44th Division (New York and New Jersey National Guard) stationed at Fort Dix, N.J. It has been the focus of many stories of unruly action, such as mass grousing over Army pay, breaking windows to show displeasure...
...Jersey State Court of Pardons last week paroled a lifer, Negro Clinton Brewer, because during 19 years in jail he had become a musician. He had written Stampede in G Minor, a jazz tune which sold well on an Okeh record; stood to get an orchestra arranger's job if freed. Convict Brewer, who had killed his wife during a quarrel, lost his speech because of a prison neurosis. Negro Richard Wright, author of Native Son (the story of a Negro killer), became interested in Musician Brewer. So did Jazz Pundit John Hammond and Band Leader Count Basie...