Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jersey's Republican Senator Robert C. Hendrickson observed that for almost 20 years he has been looking for a chance to quit government. But every time he saw his chance coming, he was "met by some new challenge.'' The challenge now offered by a second term "is the continuance in our Federal Government of the high standards now established." Hendrickson discovered a helpful fact: "For New Jersey, certain definite advantages . . . would be wiped out overnight . . . [by] changing Senators just at a time when our rich experience and our seniority status in the Senate is of greatest value...
Just put me on the lazy, no-account list, although I am still able to strike a blow for liberty [;i.e., down a bourbon with branch water] about 5 p.m. each day." -Former Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jersey Joe Walcott, father of six children, waded in swinging against juvenile delinquency in home town Camden, N.J.. where he will run the city's fun & games program for teenagers...
Equal Misery. Syracuse, N.Y. recorded 46 cases within a month, and the whole town was talking about it. Two aspirants for public office were victims last year, and local politicians were kidding possible candidates with the question, "Have you now or have you ever had infectious hepatitis?" New Jersey was sifting the data on more than 150 cases in a single school. California reported 30 cases in a housing project where water from washing machines had backed up into the drinking supply...
...matter which way he turned last week, Arthur Godfrey appeared to be in trouble. The Civil Aeronautics Board had given him ten days to answer the charges of careless flying made against him by the CAA. If Godfrey admitted thai: he had deliberately buzzed the control tower at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport, he was almost certain to be disciplined (by reprimand, fine, suspension or revocation of his private pilot's license). If. on the other hand, he could come up with no better excuse than the one he had used in his broadcast-that his twin-engined...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Paul Clement Matthews, 87, longtime (1915-37) Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey; in Winter Park, Fla. Always a staunch foe of birth control, Bishop Matthews also denounced Prohibition, once declared: "Life is not the product of law ... If the people are not temperate, no law will make them...