Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton University, made such an impression on the Tennessee lawyer that he took up Wilson's political aims, helped get him elected Governor of New Jersey and, later President of the U. S. McAdoo's reward was the Treasury...
Said he: "You are a counterfeiter, you were an auto thief, you were charged with arson, you were hounded out of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and you came over to this city to pollute the citizens. You are just as infectious as though you put poison in our water system. ... I don't agree with my colleagues in extending you leniency. . . . You have no more right being in the publishing business than I have in an airplane, and I have never been in one." Then, shaking his finger at the white-faced defendant, Justice Hackenburg shouted: "You stink...
Glad-handing Senator William Howell Smathers of New Jersey popped up in the U. S. Senate last week to introduce a resolution reminiscent of the long-dead concept of Manifest Destiny.* The resolution: to admit Cuba as a State into the Union. The Senator's pop-up was unfortunate for Good Neighborism. In Havana a gang of youths hurled bottles through the plate-glass windows of a Woolworth 5-&-10? store with notes in the bottles saying: "Down with the American Senate!" "This reply to the American Senator!" In Madrid the Falangist newspaper Arriba seized upon the resolution...
After 35 years as a member of New Jersey's Supreme Court, Justice Thomas Whitaker Trenchard, 77, who presided with memorably magisterial dignity over the turbulent trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, retired, saying: "Well, I figure I'm entitled to quit...
...more lackadaisical, profitless day. But in the offices of Manhattan's Dillon, Read & Co., the gong was the signal for a burst of activity. Dillon, Read headed a group of investment bankers and brokers with 500,000 shares of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) common to sell (for the estate of Oil Heir Edward Stephen Harkness). The bankers got busy on telephone and wire. Two hours later the stock was all sold...