Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...virtue" of this plan is that no state would have fewer Congressmen than it has at present. Twenty-three states would have the same number. Twenty-five would have additional seats as follows: California, 5; Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 4; Illinois, Texas, 3; Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, 2; Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin...
...Ambassador to Italy; George W. Wickersham, onetime (1909-13) U. S. Attorney General; W. H. Pouch, President of the National Association of Credit Men; William E. Knox, President of the American Bankers' Association; C. K. Woodbridge, President of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World; Governor Silzer of New Jersey; Judge Ewing Cockrell of Missouri, one of the organizers of the Missouri Crime Survey and son of the late Senator Francis M. Cockrell; Attorney George Gordon Battle, and, of course, Judge Gary himself...
...deeper the drill went, the higher rose excitement among New Jersey farmers, realtors from as far west as Ohio, invalids and trippers from nearby Lakewood, piney health resort. Gogetters prepared for a boom, securing options, mapping a town. Sceptics believed it merely the renaissance of a New Jersey joke of five years' standing: "Oil in Ocean County...
...corporations in the world. Others: American Telephone & Telegraph Co., Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads, U. S. Steel Corporation, National City Bank...
...newspapers, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., President of the General Motors Corporation, said: "Ridiculous on their face, for General Motors has recently announced a new series of cars, which should be sufficient answer." Said Walter C. Teagle, oil President: "Insofar as it refers to the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, there is no basis in fact for the despatch...