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Word: jersey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closest girl's school is New Jersey College for Women, 14 miles away in New Brunswick. Since this institution is across the street from Rutgers, a condition is created analogous to a Tufts man trying to horn in on Radcliffe...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: $50 Will Bring a Girl, But What's The Use? | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...only $29.00 it gets 54 per cent of the New York State revenue which is possibly the highest State revenue in the country; New York also has a two percent sales tax which places some of the tax load on the people who buy in the city. In New Jersey, the municipal tax rates range up to $100 per thousand but, just the opposite of New York, New Jersey has only tiny income and corporation taxes...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: Curley Has Edge in Boston Election | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

...idea was so appealing to New Jersey's state legislature that the bill went through unanimously last spring. It required all state officials and employees, schoolteachers and municipal workers to take a special oath of allegiance to the U.S. In addition, the bill provided that any political candidate who refused to take the oath would have "Refused Oath of Allegiance" printed below his name on the ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: The Right to Vote Wrong | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...lost in the lower court, but last week the appellate division of the New Jersey superior court upheld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: The Right to Vote Wrong | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...nuns were instructed to explain the pamphlet to their pupils. Other copies were distributed through the Catholic War Veterans, Knights of Columbus, Holy Name and Rosary societies. Parish priests were briefed. In all, the church expected to distribute close to 250,000 copies. But most Jersey political observers thought that, even with the church's help, Wene would have to make more gains before he could cry "bingo" and walk off with the governorship as his prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Bingo at the Polls | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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