Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boomed the great Borah voice, up jumped the Kansans in a repetition of their Curtis demonstration the night before. The four other nominees withdrew. The Curtis delegate-daughter, handsome Mrs. Leona Curtis Knight of Rhode Island, seconded her father in 17 words after a seconding speech by New Jersey's (Senator) Walter Evans Edge, who removed the last trace of competition...
Casting about for likely members of the M Club of Cornell University, Walter Clark Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Co., of New Jersey, hit upon the name of his rich classmate, Hayward Kendall, Cleveland coalman, and wrote him a letter. It is easy to become a member of the M Club-simply agree to contribute $1,000 annually to Cornell University. But Classmate Kendall did not want to join; and he said so in a wide open letter to President Livingston Farrand of Cornell. The letter in part...
...natural emotions on his daughter's wedding day were merged with the recurrent emotions of a Candidate. For besides the "boys" from Tammany Hall, many a bigwig Democrat was in Albany to toast the bride and smoke a cigar and have a chat-Boss Frank Hague of New Jersey, Boss George E. Brennan of Illinois, Norman E. Mack of Buffalo and the Bosses of Syracuse and Utica...
Blue laws may have had-their origin with the Puritans in Massachusetts, but it has remained for the twentieth century and the state of New Jersey to realize their full possibilities. The town of Westwood in that state has long been oppressed by a heartless law forbidding movies on Sundays. Last Sunday came the climax of a campaign for their emancipation, when Allan Meyer, who had combined the positions of Justice of the Peace and manager of the moving picture theater, took up the standard of Sunday movies and opened his theater. Haled to court and made...
Eliot's Grandson. Thomas Hopkinson, senior at Harvard, grandson of the late beloved President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard, was awarded the Lionel d'Jersey Harvard studentship at Cambridge University, England...