Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasoning: if New England helps the states that stand to benefit from the seaway, then those states might be more willing to help lift New England from its economic slough. Soon to follow Kennedy's lead was New Jersey's G.O.P. Senator Alexander Smith, who said he would switch from opposition to the bill as a matter of loyalty to Eisenhower...
...well known in Soho's nightclubs. Caught on a routine job one night in Edinburgh, Eddie was released on bail, promptly went to London and scooped up enough cash to bail out his two friends. With Eddie's girl, they lit out for the Isle of Jersey. There the police caught up with him. Eddie spent the next three years in Jersey's jail...
Cognac & Code. During the war, the Germans took over Jersey. The day Eddie was released, he marched into the office of the German commandant and boldly asked to join the German secret service. He hated England, he explained, and produced clippings of his cases to show that he would be jailed for countless years if the British police ever caught up with him. The Germans whisked Eddie off, first to a prison near Paris (where Eddie beguiled his time by sawing through the doors which led to the women's quarters), then to a chateau on the Loire. Soon...
...Ohio, Federal Judge James Mc-Namee set something of a precedent by barring the Youngstown police chief from setting himself up as a censor of "obscene literature." In New Jersey, a state judge slapped a prosecutor down for trying to ban books, ruled that he was violating the "constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press...
Damage claims resulting from hearing loss are plaguing U.S. industry. Against a single New Jersey company they total no less than $5,000,000. Medical criteria to determine whether there has been an actual loss of hearing, and if so to what degree, are only now being standardized. To correlate the results of scattered research, and to help industry cut down noise, the Mellon Institute's Industrial Hygiene Foundation in Pittsburgh has agreed to act as a "unifying agent...