Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oddie was originally an Easterner, born in Brooklyn, brought up in New Jersey. Later he had three years' experience as a cowboy in Nebraska. But he did not get to Nevada on his cayuse. He went there via a New York law school, and was sent out as attorney for the mining railroad and other interests of the Stokes and Phelps estates. There he became partner of " the famous Jim Butler," who discovered the Tonopah gold and silver field, and later had a hand in founding the Goldfield mines. So he is not a newcomer to the silver industry...
...Standard of Indiana. In addition, the Standard of Kentucky made a cut of 1¢ in Kentucky, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama. Georgia. The Standard of Nebraska cut its retail prices to 16¼¢. Slight cuts followed in the Eastern states. W. C. Teagle (President of the Standard of New Jersey) declared that, unless crude oil prices continued to fall, further cuts in retail gasoline prices were unlikely...
...from the pages of Charles Dickens, an author whom, by the way, he greatly admires. In the first place he is short, rotund, jovial, given to elaborate and biting statements punctuated by gestures which are often as grotesque as they are incisive. Then, he was born in Phalanx, New Jersey. That, in itself, is Dickensian. Woollcott, to me, is the most interesting of our dramatic critics, for he not only seems to have a knowledge of the theatre but he occasionally permits himself rare and unreasoning enthusiasms off the track of popular approval. This is good. Any critic worth...
...ravages of the Japanese beetle in Southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania have assumed alarming proportions, destroying all fruit and growing plants within its reach. The beetles have infested more than 700 square miles, and are increasing in geometrical progression. The damage to crops is immense. The Department of Agriculture is organizing control measures of two kinds: rigid quarantine by inspection of crop shipments; importation of five varieties of harmless insects which are the beetle's enemies. This marshaling of one species against another by human direction will be perhaps the main tactical principle in the coming war between insects...
President Coolidge is a graduate of Amherst College, class of 1895. Among his classmates are Herbert L. Pratt, President of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; and Dwight W. Morrow, one of the ablest of the J. P. Morgan & Co. partners. This is a rare record for any one college class...