Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regulations given to the Court by act of the last Congress, empowering it to decline to hear many cases and thus abbreviate its docket. Among the cases thrown out under this ruling was a whole series of cases by the State of New York against manufacturers in New Jersey for making objectionable smoke and smells...
Three days before Caruso died he sent for a boy named Giulio Nardella and asked him to sing. This Nardella had been a silk-weaver in a New Jersey factory. He sang as he worked. He sang as he walked home. People praised the beauty of his voice and Caruso sent him to study with de Lucia of Naples. That day he sang by the great tenor's bedside the last song Caruso heard. Last week he returned to the U. S. He will sing this winter in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago...
...President of the Council, thus combining the spiritual and legislative functions. Considerable interest was displayed over the first filling of this new and important post. There were several candidates. Bishop Gailor was the most prominent. The others included Bishop Brent of Western New York, Bishop Mathews of New Jersey, Bishop Reese of Southern Ohio, Bishop Perry of Rhode Island and Bishop James E. Freeman of Washington, D. C. There was special interest in the possibility of Bishop Freeman being chosen, because there has been talk of transferring the headquarters of the Church from Manhattan to Washington, where the great...
...teacher of American history must sacrifice truth to the spreading of patriotic myth, according to Robert L. Joyce, a New Jersey high school instructor. In this way and no other, he says can such traditions be evoked as will make the United States a homogeneous nation. Mr. Joyce believes that the disillusionment of the child brought up on myth-history is unimportant to the country, and will have no permanently evil effect on the patriotism so inculcated...
...pleasant evening when he set sail soaring up from Long Island, headed across to Jersey and westward toward Pennsylvania. Then there was a hiatus in the record. At midnight Bellefonte, Pa., (where there is the first relay field of the transcontinental air mail) began to look for him. Charles H. Ames was a veteran pilot, he was seldom late. An hour passed and the officials became a little anxious for the schedule of the mail. Clouds were lowering. Periodically there was rain. The telephone rang in a little hut at the emergency landing field at Hartleton, a few miles away...