Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found transient guests, lounge lizards, and lobby loiterers reading my paper, which they had helped themselves to out of my box in the absence of the clerk. Newark must be a temporary stopping off place for the latter class of humans, resting presumably before touring the State of New Jersey, where "Graft" seems to run wild...
Professor T. N. Carver will take the platform in support of existing prohibition laws at a serios of meetings of the Anti-Saloon league of America throughout New Jersey late this month...
...added, "that a great menace to public welfare is involved. The tests so far made for ventilation have been inadequate. . . . The present exhaust openings . . . are totally inadequate . . . we suggest . . . further tests." Autoists crowding impatiently at the crawling ferries must settle down to a new wait; the Manhattan and New Jersey tunnel opening is once more delayed...
Last week President Coolidge talked and thought canals. Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, Chairman of the Interoceanic Canals Committee of the Senate had, among others, recently looked inquisitively into the waters of the Panama Canal; he talked persuasively to the President, of the need for a Nicaragua canal, to cost between $500,000,000 and $1,000,000,000. As an economical alternative, he suggested a new $125,000,000 lock for the Panama Canal.* The President, it was reported, would think about it. Meanwhile, the Navy demonstrated to their own satisfaction, once more, the vulnerability...
Died. James Smith Jr., 75, one-time (1893-99) U. S. Senator from New Jersey; in Newark, N. J., from the infirmities of age. In 1910 he nominated Woodrow Wilson for Governor of New Jersey and was then politically crushed by him in two historic battles...