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...responsible for this attempt to reform New Jersey is Boss Hague's fellow Democrat and archfoe, former Governor Charles Edison, 54, son of Inventor Thomas A. Edison and onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy. From the start of his three-year term in 1941, smart, mild-mannered Governor Edison defied Hague more openly than any other governor has dared to. He dented Hague's armor badly, using the old state constitution as his bludgeon. Edison stumped the state, denouncing the inefficient basic law. Before his term was up, he got the people to vote for the submission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Edison's Magna Carta | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

Cornell bowed to the Harvard crew in their last meeting, in April, 1943. Behind during the entire race, the Cantabs caught up 20 seconds from the end and passed the Redmen to win by a half-length, thus keeping alive the three-year undefeated streak of Tom Bollos' crews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crewmen Will Race Against MIT, Cornell | 8/18/1944 | See Source »

...some company officials, also has little to do with the current bareness of dealers' counters. The tobacco supply worries the leading companies. Their current in months' inventories are production, sufficient for whereas about 20 stocks to 23 of aging tobaccos normally are maintained to equal a three-year supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: Oversmoking? | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...exact terms of these compromises are being fought out at Bretton Woods. Whatever the terms, Congress and Parliament will certainly criticize them and perhaps reject them. In fact, only one provision of the proposal is not likely to be criticized: after a three-year breathing spell no member shall (except by special permission of the Fund) use any devices that prevent businessmen from buying and selling freely in every country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXCHANGE: Money Talks | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...little more than a year ago, Exchange President Emil Schram cried out a warning against the unhealthy boom in the low-priced "cat & dog" stocks (TIME, March 15, 1943). Last week, the "blue chips" led the parade of some 245 stocks onto new high ground. A.T. & T. hit a three-year peak, while Chrysler, Westinghouse, General Motors, Du Pont and many a retail-store stock reached new highs for 1944. And the tone had changed. Grumblers had long complained that every slip of the market meant that U.S. investors have no faith in the peace. But now, day after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pre-Invasion Market | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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