Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them. Congress sent an urgent message for help to Washington, who was then at West Point, and without waiting to see what the result would be, the members of Congress unheroically slipped through the back door and made their way through a golden June sunset to Princeton in New Jersey, thus abandoning the seat of government to eighty mutineers and a sergeant."-Washington-Hero or Image. It was to assure to Congress a home of its own where it could protect itself from insults of this character that the District was established. TENCH T. MARYE...
STANDARD OIL OF NEW JERSEY: George H. Jones, Chairman of the board of directors; Walter Clark Teagle, President...
...trust, which President Roosevelt castigated, which dissolved in 1911 when William Howard Taft was President of the U. S. The present corporations are separate, one from the others. Each one counts its yearly profits in the millions. Last week the officers of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey announced that their profits for the year 1926 had been...
...Oilman Ray H. Collins, hastened from Manhattan to Tulsa last week to persuade all Oklahoma oil operators to restrict their daily production and so help stabilize their industry. A committee of operators, conferring in Manhattan under the guidance of President Walter C. Teagle of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, and President W. S. Parish of Humble Oil & Refining Co., had asked him to go on the difficult mission. They represented ownership of three-quarters of the Oklahoma wells and to that extent expected success for Emissary Collins...
...touching tribute--this gallant Jersey gesture. Somehow when the world seems blue and clouds are gray and everything is in accordance with the best traditions of Irving Berlin, then it is pleasantly enervating to be showered with fulsome praise. Life, after all, is worth living and one can arise in the morning, or whenever one is accustomed to arise, with the feeling that there is something left--not much, but something. And if there is a slight miscalculation on the part of Princeton--no harm at all is done, for, as the Gilbert and Sullivan gendarmes sing...