Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists were staggered when returns from rural districts showed votes piling up for opposition candidates. At the last minute local Front bosses had to reshuffle the rural count and ring up huge city majorities to make possible the Government landslide. Bucharest, Rumania's Jersey City, turned in over 425,000 for the Government partymen, 70,000 for the opposition...
Labor. With an air of leave-this-one-to-me, Bob Taft announced that he, Minnesota's Joe Ball, New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith and Missouri's Forrest Donnell would study labor legislation. None of the four Senators is remembered for kowtowing to union bosses. Senator George Aiken of Vermont, labor's best G.O.P. friend and in line for chairmanship of the Labor Committee, was not included in Taft's group. Aiken could take part in the study "if he wants to, I guess," Taft said coldly. But it was "Ball...
Some 450 alcoholics with colossal hangovers have shuffled a path to the ivied red house on Temple Street which houses Yale's New Haven clinic. By last week, the Yale Plan had started a national movement: at least five states (New Jersey, New Hampshire, Alabama, Oregon, Connecticut) and a dozen cities were studying or organizing similar clinics (Connecticut already had one in operation in Hartford). With the aid of Salvation Army workers, ministers, educators, and Alcoholics Anonymous (24,000 members), Yale was campaigning busily for free medical treatment for the nation's 750,000 chronic alcoholics...
...Duke of Windsor and his Duchess arrived safely in Manhattan-the Duke in a blue suit (and cotton sweater and plaid shirt), the Duchess in what she helpfully described to some 50 welcoming reporters and cameramen as "a blue wool suit with a red wool jersey, a striped silk hat-I guess that's what you call it-with a veil, and a black box calf and alligator handbag." Also a mink stole. But no jewels. (Explained the Duke, whose Duchess got stolen blind back in Britain: "Well, really, there wouldn't be many left to bring...
...Jersey, the pattern was the same. Red-faced, stiff-collared Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City had long been delivering 100,000 pluralities in his Hudson County bailiwick. That was what it took to outvote the Republican suburbs and farmlands. But six years of being at odds with the State House had begun to count. Hague spent money as never before: electioneers got $10 or $20 a day instead of the usual $5. It was not enough. Starved of patronage, outfoxed by voting machines, Hague could deliver only a measly 67,000 plurality in his home county. With another enemy...