Word: bradley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Richard G. Powell '38 heads the returning Varsity players. Coach Jack Carr expects defensive strength with the combination of H. Putnam Williams '39, Powell, Theodore P. Robie '38, and Joseph C. Bradley '39, all lettermen, in goal and at fullback...
...William B. Osborne, Methodist minister and onetime Philadelphia marble dealer, left his horse & buggy on the highway, wandered among sand dunes, knelt in prayer. There, during the following summer, he put up a tent, held religious services. Later, with a pious Manhattan brush maker named James A. Bradley, he formed the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, began selling lots. Ocean Grove prospered...
Flanked in later days by a line of resorts including Asbury Park and Bradley Beach, both developed by astute Mr. Bradley, Ocean Grove acquired in 1876 a big auditorium in which spoke not only religious leaders but Presidents of the U. S.-Grant, Garfield, McKinley, Roosevelt I, Taft, Wilson. Last week, when it reached the height of its most successful season since 1929, Ocean Grove was still a predominantly Methodist theopolis, one of a few communities left in the U. S. which are run on a strictly godly basis...
...midnight every Saturday, heavy chains are stretched across the three entrances to Ocean Grove, and no automobile may enter, or move in the town's streets, until midnight Sunday. Unless they go to Asbury Park or Bradley Beach, the 35,000 summer residents of Ocean Grove go without ice cream, soda pop, postcards, films and newspapers on Sunday. Ocean Grove is the only dry community on the North Jersey coast, and in 1926 the late John Philip Sousa, concert touring, incurred its permanent displeasure by playing Follow the Swallow after he had been told a march called Wets & Drys...
...Bradley survey showed that of 207,000 Hupmobiles licensed in the U. S., 57 % were still being driven by their original owners, that 78% of Hupmobile owners wanted to "stick to Hupp...