Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starred a social project as ever drew howls from anti-New Deal columnists is Jersey Homesteads, a settlement of 200 flat-roofed, garage-like homes halfway between New York and Philadelphia and hard by the Revolutionary battlefield of Monmouth.* Designed for Manhattan garment workers, 120 of whom paid in $500 each for participation in a cooperative garment factory on the grounds, Jersey Homesteads was thoroughly snarled in Government red tape. Some $4,000,000 went into purchase of the land (1,275 acres), building of a factory and homes, equipping a communal farm. Thousands of dollars went out the window...
...garment factory was a dismal flop, found no market for its coats and suits. Government loans of $200,000 fell due, and the Department of Agriculture, which had fallen heir to R. A.'s white elephant, finally foreclosed, sold some of the plant machinery for $1,811. Jersey Homesteaders who could find jobs commuted to Manhattan or Philadelphia, still counted themselves lucky to be living in the country at monthly rent...
Betsy got most of her education in a New Jersey convent (she is not a Catholic), where she edited the school magazine. At 18 she got a job as assistant fashion editor of Charm, held it for seven years, later did promotion for children's clothes. Twice married, she is now the wife of Lawyer James Madison Blackwell, has a young son (James Madison IV) known as Judge...
...other questions, including "For whom did you vote in 1936?" The Princeton researchers estimated that 6,000,000 people heard the broadcast; 1,700,000 believed it to be news; 1,200,000 were frightened. Although the broadcast dealt mainly with events supposedly happening in central and northern New Jersey, the panic was widespread. In the South, 80% of those who heard were plumb scared; in the East North Central and West North Central States, 72% were alarmed...
Arrested next day on suspicion, John Serido, Anthony Buccolo and Doyle Gaza-way, who had driven the car, admitted a series of holdups in central and northern New Jersey, and the Moskowitz attempt. Said they of Max: "The guy was just too tough...