Word: nj
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the wires to its 30,000 offices and agencies in the U.S., Western Union last week tapped out an order: don't take any messages or money orders involving bets. The order came after a Cumberland, NJ. county court convicted Western Union and its branch manager, Charles H. Frake, 40, of "maintaining a disorderly house" (i.e., a place where illegal business is conducted). The state charged that W.U. broke a New Jersey law banning off-track horse-race betting by handling $300,000 in betting messages and money orders wired to out-of-state bookies. W.U. maintained that...
...simply to rescue a $5,000,000 loan which Cousin Andrew Mellon had made on some Texas oil leases. He salvaged the money so well that when he retired at 80 his empire (still 41% owned by the Mellon family) stretched from Venezuela, where only Standard's (NJ.) Creole and Royal Dutch Shell outrank Gulf's Mene Grande, to Kuwait on the Persian Gulf, where Gulf and Britain's Anglo-Iranian share more than 11 billion bbls. of oil reserves. Under him, Gulf got the prospecting rights to all of Denmark, and his global marketing and producing...
JULIANA JOHNS Rochelle Park, NJ...
Near Bordentown, NJ. the 476-ft. Grille, once proud pleasure yacht of Adolf Hitler, later bought by Textile Millionaire George Arida, went under the torches of a salvage crew, to be cut up and sent to the national defense scrap pile...
Next Stassen called 20 faithful supporters to a meeting at the Clarksboro (NJ.) home of Amos J. Peaslee, the affluent lawyer who was Stassen's Eastern money-raiser in 1948. Stassen told them his plan. He admitted that he still dreamed of being President, but he knew that his chances in 1952 would be poor. The Stassen men went away...