Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus population changes, ignored since 1910, will at last be considered. When the post-census Congress meets, it will, on estimates of the 1930 count, contain six additional members from California, four from Michigan, three from Ohio, two from New Jersey and Texas, and one from Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Washington. Subtractions will be three from Missouri; two from Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky. Mississippi; one from Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia...
With characteristic independence, President Hoover will pick Dr. Work's successor. Possibilities: Secretary of War James William Good; Claudius Hart Huston of Tennessee; National Committee Vice-chairman Ralph E. Williams of Oregon; National Committee Secretary Franklin William Fort of New Jersey; National Committee General Counsel James Francis Burke of Pennsylvania...
...jury of his New Jersey peers heard him make his admission. It was just a "lark" for him, he said. He and four other New Jerseyites had been shooting at a target in one of their back yards. They drank some New Jersey stuff and decided to go hunting deer. They sighted the Los Angeles. Merton Hankins wanted a ride. He waved his hands. He shouted. He jumped up and down. He turned capers. Lieutenant Commander Herbert V. Wiley of the Los Angeles paid no heed, so Merton Hankins fired his shotgun at the ship, he said, "just to attract...
...Ford-I. G. F. combination followed closely upon I. G. F.'s establishment of a U. S. Subsidiary which included among its directorate National City's Charles Mitchell, International Acceptance's Paul Warburg, Standard Oil of New Jersey's Walter Teagle, Ford's Edsel Ford (TIME, May 6). Just as this linking of interests had been interpreted as a linking of Standard Oil and I. G. F. to compete actively with the du Pont interests, so the Ford-I. G. F. consolidation was considered a Standard Oil-Ford-I. G. F. alliance against du Pont...
Second Suit. New York City deposits its rubbish, its refuse, its garbage in the Atlantic Ocean, most of which eventually reaches New Jersey's shoals, white-sand beaches. New Jersey would prevent New York from so littering its bathing grounds...