Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rough & Tough. But the real snafu, the place where the phone strike began to realize its ugly potential, was in New Jersey...
...After 16 years of grinding through Bronx traffic, Busdriver William Cimillo was seized with a desire to change the scene. Switching the destination sign on his employer's new $18,000 bus from "Subway" to "Special," he lit out for New Jersey, kept going for 1,350 miles to Hollywood, Fla., ended up at the race track and in need of money-for which he wired his boss. But the boss wouldn't even let him drive the bus back...
...figures for 1944-45, President Conant pointed out, reveal that where New Jersey, in using 1.74 percent of its total income for public schools, provided $198 for each pupil, North Carolina, by expending 1.91 percent for the same purpose, raised $68 per child. "On this point, (that sufficient funds are not available)," said President Conant, "stands the present case for Federal...
...Jersey, part-time Counterman Peter Chenes started violently when $20,000 hit him. "I refuse to get excited," he declared. "But if a guy asks for a cheeseburger, and I feel like giving him a hamburger, he gets hamburger...
...with the likes of Sophie Tucker, Eva Tanguay, Rooney & Bent. His act began on a dark stage with a spotlight on a placard, reading: "Mr. Allen Is Quite Deaf. If You Care to Applaud, Please Do So Loudly." His suit, he confided to the audience, had been made in Jersey City-"I'm a bigger man there than I am here...