Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fugitive. In Cairo, Ga., Morris Jones, Negro, a fugitive from a New Jersey reformatory, asked to be kept in a Georgia jail rather than be returned...
...Englishmen. Lord Halifax saw the towers of Manhattan from the Empire State Building (it was his first trip to New York City) with Al Smith, was whisked from conference to luncheon to conference, preceded by screaming motorcycles bearing U. S. and British flags, crossed the Hudson to New Jersey, received 100 presents (including one package, thought to contain a bomb, which turned out to be a big metal statue of Winston Churchill, thumbs up), conferred with one archbishop, three bishops and several clergymen. He opened a clubroom for British seamen, roared with them "Are we downhearted? No!" with thumbs...
Married. Lucile Sheppard, Radcliffe graduate student, third daughter of Texas' mild, old Dry Senator Morris Sheppard, who sponsored the 18th Amendment; and Arthur W. Keyes Jr., Harvard architectural student from Rutland, Vt.; in the presence of the Texas and Vermont Congressional delegations, Vice President Wallace, New Jersey's Governor Edison; in Washington...
...facts of last week's naval construction report. Warships were being delivered to the Navy from two months to almost a year ahead of schedule. Last month four destroyers and a submarine were completed. Thirteen months ahead of time and still gaining were the Iowa and the New Jersey-first of the 45,000-ton battleships to be laid down. Three more battleships were coming along four months ahead of schedule. Well on their way to completion were an aircraft carrier, six light cruisers, seven submarines, eight destroyers. The 35,000-ton dreadnoughts North Carolina and Washington-the first...
...blue-eyed Mrs. Paul Pihl (nee Willkie), whose husband has been Assistant U. S. Naval Attache in Berlin the last three years, arrived from Lisbon with Freckles, her red cocker, still snug under her arm, had her picture taken with Mrs. Wendell Willkie, who went to greet her at Jersey City...