Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jersey's millionaire Senator Albert Hawkes, turned down by his state's G.O.P. committee as a candidate for reelection (TIME, Feb. 2), continued his campaign anyway. Last week in Washington he made a speech before a dinner-meeting of Jersey bigwigs. Trumpeted Senator Hawkes: "Hatred must be erased from our hearts. I have never hated anyone in my life longer than overnight. There is one exception-and he lies buried in Hyde Park...
...Jersey jury awarded one Richard Kiener $2,500 for injuries incurred when someone gave him a hotfoot and inadvertently set his pants afire while he was dozing in a Paterson saloon...
Ozzie has always had an appetite for action. He was the youngest Eagle Scout in New Jersey (and won a trip to Europe with the qualifying merit badge). At Rutgers, he was varsity quarterback, lacrosse letterman, diver on the swimming team, middleweight boxing champion, a fair musician, and a near miss at Phi Beta Kappa. When Rudy Vallee was king of the crooners, Ozzie was a topflight bandleader. Last week, at 41, he was still riding high. His husband-&-wife program (CBS, Fri. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.) was the best in its category, with a 10.5 Hooperating...
...last year at New Jersey Law College, Ozzie organized a band to help pay his way. By the time he got his diploma (1930), he had decided that his eight-piece hand looked a lot bigger than a lawyer's shingle. In a year he was making more money than a Supreme Court justice...
...Said Jersey Standard's President Eugene Holman: "We've got the fuel oil shortage in the East largely licked." Holman and the industry took hope from the fact that more tankers are being put on the Texas-East Coast run. But to New York, which had to borrow oil from the U.S. Navy, and to shivering householders, the shortage seemed far from licked. And even optimistic Mr. Holman conceded that the overall U.S. oil shortage would last for at least another two or three years...