Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lehlbach of New Jersey, chairman of the Civil Service Committee...
Bacharach of New Jersey, Ways & Means member...
...succeeded Iowa's Green (who was "kicked upstairs" to a judgeship last session) as chairman of Ways & Means. He was a pedagog (Umpqua Academy, Oregon State Normal School, Willamette University) from 1884 to 1905. "Don't rock the boat," is his fiscal motto, while New Jersey's Bacharach provides the vessel's steam. Big of frame, with thinning sandy hair, he wrestles happily with infinite details...
...good will which underlies the systems of foreign studentships is not a fallacy. The hope of explaining Nicaraguan excursions, Philippines uprisings, Armistice Day speeches, was slight almost to despair, but the explanation is made, and satisfactorily, too, in the very lair of the suspicious lion. To the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Student goes the honor of out pointing and outwitting the British genius for debate. To the British genius for fair play goes the honor of properly awarding his laurel to him. The net result is not far from equal, and credits to each side a rise in the score...
...national defense as well as for commerce. He wants to see a coastal-lateral canal system from Boston to Norfolk, Va. A link needed to join up present. parts of this system is a 31-mile canal from the Delaware River to the Raritan across New Jersey...