Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Roach Straton, Manhattan Baptist minister, heard "a piece of good fun" last week. A preacheradmirer, living in New Jersey, "nominated" Dr. Straton to be President of the U. S. Said Dr. Straton: "If I were President, I'd try to get Henry Ford to serve in my Cabinet. He's a good Christian. If I were President, I'd call out the Army and Navy, yes, sir! and I'd close the dance halls, the sinks of iniquity, and I'd enforce Prohibition and all the other laws. If I were President, my first...
...those cities), the Delaware & Hudson (upstate New York to the St. Lawrence). The B. & O. and the New York Central own control of the Philadelphia & Reading. In this particular road Mr. Loree has potent rights. This is important, for the Philadelphia & Reading controls the Central R. R. of New Jersey, the railroad that owns the finest port facilities in New York Harbor. The Western Maryland sale keeps Mr. Loree away from the South. The Wheeling & Lake Erie sale is not so important...
Irate Lillie. During the trial Captain Wright referred to one-time famed actress Lillie Langtry as " 'The Jersey Lily' . . . well-known in the U. S. to have been Mr. Gladstone's mistress" (TIME...
...that his policies were governed by 'his seraglio'. . . . Lord Morley once told me that Lord Granville told him he had known five of Queen Victoria's Prime Ministers who had committed adultery. I am sure that Mr. Gladstone must have been one of these.* . . . The actress Lillie Langtry, 'The Jersey Lily,' was well-known in the U. S. to be Mr. Gladstone's mistress. . . . Another was Olga Novikov whom the Tsarist Government sent to England especially to fascinate him, in the '70s. ... I have even talked with a former steeplechase jockey who said that Mr. Gladstone once tried to flirt...
Princeton States: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Nevada. Tie: with Harvard for Mississippi...