Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plants was destroyed. A special permit was granted by the War Department to dump garbage at sea. Great scows heaped with offal are towed out of New York Harbor, out beyond Sandy Hook, to a point 14 miles from the coast of Long Island and 22 miles from New Jersey. There the offal is consigned to Father Neptune...
...sends a woman to Congress for the first time. She is the seventh woman to sit in the House of Representatives. Others: Miss Jeannette Rankin (Montana) ; Miss Alice Robertson (Oklahoma) ; Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck (Illinois) ; Mrs. Mae E. Nolan (California) ; Mrs. Julius Kahn-(California) ; Mrs. Mary T. Norton* (New Jersey). She follows the new "widow" precedent in politics (Mrs. Nolan and Mrs. Kahn and Governess Ross of Wyoming succeeded their husbands-Mrs. Huck, her father...
...porter. Rejecting, for the first time in its history, the tepid, sad-eyed romanticism of such names as Bellameade, Merryvale, Alamar, it christened a car after a Negro who died, last month, in an attempt to save the lives of the passengers when his car was wrecked in New Jersey*-Oscar J. Daniels...
Miss Jean Elizabeth Baldwin of New Jersey, Miss Violet Burd Grubb of Burlington, N. J., Miss Rosalie Evans of Manhattan, Miss Florence Pratt of Manhattan, Miss Helen Sheldon of London, Miss Annie Laurie Warmack of St. Louis, Mo ; Mrs Cass Gilbert of New York and Ridgefield, Conn. Mars. H. A. Murray of Boston, Mrs Bertrand H. Snell of New York and Washington...
...Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N. J.) the alumni paraded behind George S. Silzer, LL.D., '23, Governor of New Jersey. The trustees announced the election of Dr. John Martin Thomas, President of Pennsylvania State College, to succeed Dr. William H. S. Demarest (resigned 1924) as President of Rutgers. The University exchanged distinctions with Tsuneo Matsudaira, Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., by making that gentleman an honorary Doctor of Laws...