Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jersey...
Maine 6 New Hampshire 4 Vermont 4 Massachusetts 18 Rhode Island 5 Connecticut 7 New York 45 New Jersey 14 Pennsylvania...
...problematical New Jersey. Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Democratic Senators Edwards, Gerry and David Ignatius Walsh, respectively, were defending their seats. The intersection of senatorial and presidential campaigns is usually figured the other way around. In the event of a Hoover landslide, the Democrats might lose not only the Presidency but a Senate seat each in four States where they now have both seats. In Montana, Senator Wheeler might get ousted; in Tennessee, Senator McKellar. In Missouri, Democrat Charles M. Hay, slated to fill the seat of fierce retiring-Senator James A. ("Jim") Reed, might lose to Republican R. C. Patterson...
...Horatio Seymour was defeated by Ulysses S. Grant, who had a plurality of only 305,456 votes of the total vote of 5,724,688. Seymour carried New York, New Jersey, Oregon, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Maryland. The election of Grant was inevitable, for Grant sympathizers dominated the election in the Southern States where voting was permitted. The votes of Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia, all concededly Seymour States, by special act of Congress were not counted...
...pictures were loaned by Mr. & Mrs. Cheer Dale of Manhattan. The red-headed Mr. Dale is an investment banker, a member of the Stock Exchange, a director of Western railroads, New Jersey public utilities. During the war he established a Liberty Loan office, sold innumerable bonds. His dynamic existence takes him twice a year to France. He chases over the fairways at St. Cloud, chases to art collectors, buys with zest. With him goes the gracious Mrs. Dale, herself a painter of stage decorations, a writer of cogent art criticism. In three years they have gathered more than 300 modern...