Word: townships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pauline Stemmer, 45-year-old housewife of North Brunswick Township, N. J., felt sick and dizzy. She went to see Dr. William Klein, well-known radiologist of New Brunswick. He found a walnut-sized tumor in her uterus, advised her to have it removed by Xray. She went to St. Peter's General Hospital, of which Dr. Klein was president, and had three irradiations...
...last fortnight Rugg book burnings began to blaze afresh in the smalltown, American Legion belt. In rapid succession the school boards of Mountain Lakes and Wayne Township, N. J. banished Rugg texts that had been used by their pupils nearly ten years. Explained Wayne Township's Board Member Ronald Gall: "In my opinion, the books are un-American but not anti-American...
...which is wafted constantly to the study in which I write . . . is so rank that unless corrected it will force me to abandon my home." The prize: a civic order limiting the number of pigs to 20 at any one time in any one place in the township. Mr. Anderson objected to a large, newly-built pen which housed 200 pigs for a boys' camp. Now, said he, the camp would need more boys to eat the pigs, and more boys would need still more pigs...
Ketchum comes from Evanston, Illinois, and is a graduate of Evanston Township High. He lives in Lowell House, concentrates in Biochemical Sciences, and is a Phillips Brooks House worker...
...days later, Police Chief C. Norbert Wade reported with a straight face to the Township Committee. Patrolman Pierman, said the chief, had strayed from duty. The woman he had in his car while parked in a quiet spot was one who "neither required information, nor was aged, infirm, blind, suddenly taken ill, injured, or otherwise temporarily unable to care for herself." Moreover, he had made a broadcast "not in the line of duty or relating to public, police or safety matters." Patrolman Pierman opened himself altogether to five official charges when he forgot to turn off the switch...