Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand Army would not be soft-soaped. Rheumy old eyes glowered as the proposition was voted down. Piped one stern-principled New Jersey veteran: "They were WRONG back in 1861. . . .When they admit it, and not until l then, will we join them. . . . Let them fold up their battle flags. . When they put those flags in museums, then we will believe they want reunion...
Francis Scott McBride, bespectacled, square-jawed, rumple-haired alumnus of Muskingum College, is a person of no small importance. As Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America he inhabits and marches in the boots of the late, mighty Wayne Bidwell Wheeler.* Last week he marched into New Jersey to help the Anti-Saloon League of that State elect a superintendent. Addressing his local brethren he referred to William J. Calhoun, who only a few days before had been made Federal Prohibition Administrator for New Jersey, as follows...
...conditions don't improve in New Jersey under the new Federal administration of William J. Calhoun then they will improve under a new administrator. Washington means business in this State...
...Home Town. In New Jersey, Mr. McBride also had occasion to say: "In my old home town in Ohio the people are dry and are living in a new world. They are making real progress...
...mighty Leland Stanford footballer to undergraduate Herbert Hoover. Striking out for the East he took his law degree at Columbia, taught in the Columbia Law School from 1903-06 and 1913-17, and on the side did such brilliant legal work for the Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey that he was snapped up by George F. Baker, then director of First National Bank of New York. After nine years (in 1922) Mr. Reynolds was made president...