Word: greenbush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shelby H. Page of New York City and Holworthy Hall, business manager; David E. Place of Greenbush and Grays Hall, advertising manager; Jere Mead of Belmont and Matthews Hall, editorial chairman; Henry W. Munroe of New York City and Matthews Hall, literary editor; Roger Lyford of Westport, Connecticut and Matthews Hall, art editor; and Paul Southwick of Baltimore and Wigglesworth Hall, photographic editor...
...troops. Anderson arranged with Wilson to secure and pack pork and beef for the army. On the casks and barrels Wilson had written E. A.U. S., meaning from Contractor Anderson to the United States. Visitors saw the containers thus labelled on a wharf for shipment to Newburgh and Greenbush, asked the watchman what the initials stood for. He declared: "It all belongs to Mr. Anderson and Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam who? Why Uncle Sam Wilson. He owns all about here and is feeding the Army." The phrase spread to the Army camps whence went the meat shipments, was taken...