Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complained: "The public wants Callas to be noble and delicate . . . Woe betide if, opposed to this idealistic spirituality, the public should discover a behind-scenes maneuver whereby a dainty Butterfly is achieved only through a cure with special macaroni." Six Roman Catholic Holy Name Societies in southern New Jersey protested because a new $100 million bridge between Philadelphia and Camden, N.J. is named after a longtime Camdenizen, earthy Poet Walt (Leaves of Grass) Whitman. Reason: Whitman portrayed "the common man" as "homoerotic," i.e., hankering perversely for other common men. A rebuttal came promptly from the former head of the public...
...foremen $13, plus so many fringe benefits, e.g., Sunday pay, year-end bonuses, housing, schooling, hospital care and cheap commissary supplies, that real wages are nearly triple normal wages. ¶ "Lives in a fishbowl." Example: in response to Venezuelan suspicions that Creole might be selling oil cheap to Jersey's refining and marketing organizations, deliberately cutting its profits and therefore the government's oil income, Creole initiated clarifying discussions between the government and those companies. ¶ Gives preference to Venezuelans in employment. Nine out of ten Creole employees are Venezuelans; even on the supervisory "staff," the percentage...
...Jersey's ex-Governor Charles Edison, son of matchless Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, took the wrappings...
Students who contemplate hitchhiking south over the New Jersey Turnpike this vacation may find the task difficult...
...Jersey State Police yesterday announced a severe crackdown on hitchhikers on the Pike. The Turnpike Authority blamed the crackdown on the unusually large number of people in recent years who have resorted to thumbing for their transportation...