Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Time and Place. An arena, seating 115,000, will be built in Connecticut, "not more than one hour from Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan." That indicates the Stamford neighborhood. Connecticut is the most desirable state because it puts no limit on ticket prices. In New York and New Jersey, $15 would be the limit for a Wills -Firpo (non - championship) match. July 19 is mentioned for a date...
...composition which defies analysis. This stratum the investigator likens to the Pre-Cambrian, and assumes to be of great antiquity. Upon this base are laid numerous formations which at recurring intervals indicate an accumulation of debris from the most distant regions of the continent. Traces of Colorado gumbo, New Jersey sand, and Ohio clay were identified. The dominant type, however, was a dust which the analyst designated as Cantabrigian...
Besides the chairman, Corliss Lamont '24 of Englewood, New Jersey, the new committee has four assistant chairmen, who are the men who were sub-chairmen of the 1924 Freshman finance committee. These are Francis Kernan Jr. '24 of Utica, N. Y.; Isadore Black '24 of Trenton, N. J.; William Lioyd Garrison 3rd '24 of West Newton; and Harry Eldridge '24 of Hempstead, Long Island...
...suppression of vice and immorality" was passed in New Jersey providing that no "wordly business or employment, nor any interludes, plays for gain, dancing, singing, fiddling or other music for the sake of merriment" should be carried on upon the Sabbath day. In 1923, this statute still remains on the books: zealous but simple-minded ladies and gentlemen invoke it to suppress Sunday movies and theatres, while paleoxed legislators seek daily to add more awe of the vintage of 1798 to the already complete collection...
...Jersey justice declared that to obtain the repeal of an obnoxious law "you have but to enforce it". This is sensible enough. But in America obnoxious laws merely cease to be enforced: they are not repealed, and when contempt for the insignificant, puerile attempts of the law makers results as it must, the derision and disregard of really rational laws is not far off. Obedience to law is a habit and so is disobedience. If the energy of law-making and of law enforcement is to be spent on childish, insincere and unnecessary regulations, the main body of necessary...