New Jersey and its citizens have been in many battles as the underdog, among them having its name on a sports team or getting credit for designing the American flag. However, none may have been more important than the time Arthur Flemming, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, attacked one of the state’s leading agricultural products, the cranberry, only a few weeks before Thanksgiving 1959.
After a routine press conference announcing the seizure of several batches of cranberries from the states of Oregon and…
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