Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Such a diversion of public-school funds involves the interlocking of the taxing function of the state with the institutional functioning of the church which owns and operates . . . schools. . . . The majority decision of the Supreme Court in the New Jersey case undertook to justify such aid to parochial schools by detaching bus transportation from the institutional functioning of the church, and even of the school. Having thus detached it, the court then classified bus transportation as a 'public welfare' measure...
Human After All. Most of the fans and Referee Ruby Goldstein had no doubt about it. They gave the decision to Jersey Joe. But two judges voted the other way. As his arm was raised in victory, Joe Louis, a forlorn figure, got booed for the first time in his long ring career. The cheers were for Jersey Joe. The fact is that Walcott probably deserved the decision-even if no one deserved to win a world's heavyweight championship by riding a bicycle the last round. Louis, some $190,000 richer and still champion despite his weary legs...
...Louis might have slipped as a fighter, but he had not lost his laconic candor. When a reporter asked if he thought Jersey Joe was a second-rater that night, Louis tapped his chest with his finger and said...
...took his ring name from a crack Negro welterweight of half a century ago, who, like Jersey Joe's father, was born in Barbados...
Sunrise. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey followed Sun Oil Co.'s lead (TIME, Dec. 8) and boosted its buying price of crude by 50? a barrel. By week's end, the new price pattern had been established east of the Rockies and showed signs of spreading to the West Coast, where Union Oil Co. of California had already led off with a 40? increase...