Word: newark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acquitted by a judge who pointed out that baseball stadiums and theaters have long violated the Sabbath with impunity. In many cities where Sunday-closing ordinances are enforced, merchants sidestep the law by selling from branches outside city limits. Rather than turn away customers, businessmen in such cities as Newark and Little Rock, Ark. have repeatedly paid fines and continued to cater to Sunday trade...
...country." Again and again he cried: "It is time to take the government away from General Motors and give it back to Joe Smith." But somewhere beneath his genteel belligerency there still lurked the elements of the enigma of 1952. "The tide is rising," said he in Newark, after a day of small and disappointing crowds in Democratic sections of New Jersey. "I only hope...
Early Life: Born in Newark on April 25, 1906, the son (one of eight children) of an Irish-born immigrant who started out as a laborer, entered New Jersey politics, became a city commissioner and later Newark's director of public safety. As a schoolboy, young Bill helped the family income by delivering milk, making change for trolley riders. Graduating cum laude from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, he won a scholarship to Harvard Law School, got his degree...
Legal Career: Practiced law with a Newark firm until 1942, when he joined the Army and specialized in industrial and labor-manpower cases; in 1944 was made Chief of Civilian Personnel of Army Ordnance, was discharged as a colonel a year later. He returned to his law firm only upon his insistence that he be made a partner, subsequently built a widespread reputation as an expert on labor...
After delivering a dedication address at the New Jersey Turnpike's Holland Tunnel-Newark extension, New Jersey's bachelor Governor Robert B. Meyner, 48, was asked, "Does this road lead to matrimony?" With his pretty guest, Helen Stevenson, a distant cousin of Adlai E. Stevenson, standing a few feet away, Meyner gazed down the broad $120 million turnpike extension and murmured, "I don't see any signs...