Word: jerseys
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...York Stock Exchange for $185,000 and joined the family firm. He went into the Navy as an ensign in 1942, served with the Seventh Fleet, was discharged as a lieutenant commander. Married in 1931, he has two daughters, maintains homes in Washington, New York, New Jersey, Maine and France...
Talk of this sort was right down the back alley of Ike Williams, onetime (1947-51) lightweight champion and now a $46-a-week New Jersey state employee. Appearing before Senator Estes Kefauver's hearings on the ills of boxing, Williams complained that he, too, had been underpaid throughout his career (during which he grossed $1,000,000), never had got his cut of $40,000 for two big fights from Manager Frank ("Blinky") Palermo. What seemed to nag at Williams most was that he had turned down more than $180,000 in bribes to throw fights, including...
...convention could provide a comprehensible, thoughtful review of the constitution that the large, harried General Court cannot undertake, even political interests aside. Despite the fiascos that New Hampshire puts on every 7 years, conventions like New Jersey's in 1947 have succeeded when advised by competent research. The uniqueness of a convention overcomes the usual cynicism toward politics and stimulates interest and support that the everyday process of government cannot get. Jerome Rappaport, a member of the Constitutional Conference that has been studying reforms, maintains that "it does a society a great deal of good to examine the organic structure...
...Illinois, which Kennedy carried by 8,849 out of 4,750,000 votes, recounters last week had waded through only 56 of Cook County's 906 paper-ballot precincts, and Republicans claimed a net gain of 451 votes for Nixon. In New Jersey, Republicans called off the fight after early recounts came up with small Kennedy gains. In Missouri, recounts cannot get under way unless and until they are authorized by the Democrat-controlled state legislature, which does not meet again until January, just several days before the inauguration of President-elect Kennedy...
...never been a zoo in the town ever since it had become a town, and so they did not see why there should be one now." For a year, Durrell almost literally had a zoo in his luggage. Then a 17th century mansion on the Channel island of Jersey was ceded to the animal kingdom...