Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mixture and twin grey felt hats, Mr. Wilson is said to have said: "Look more like each other than ever, don't we? Well, that's an advantage for me. The people in the car will think you are the Governor, and as the Governor of New Jersey isn't very popular just now, I'll get all the pleasant bows intended for the more acceptable editor of the Ladies' Home Journal." Sure enough, a lady in one of the cars they passed through drove Mr. Wilson into the washroom convulsed with glee by bowing...
Last week Chairman George H. Jones and President Walter C. Teagle of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey* quietly announced that their gross business last year amounted to $1,122,682,610. The amount stirred less interest than the fact that this one of the Standard Oil group does the second largest business in the world, ranking next to the U. S. Steel Corp. ($1,406,505,195) and ahead of General Motors Corp...
...there was no wonder when he became vice president of the Republic Oil Co. at its organization in 1900. He went into the foreign field, became the great expert on oil export that he is. This eventually gained him the presidency of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey...
...present, President Hibben is a worthy successor of the many illustrous men who have come to Harvard on this occasion in past years. For many years a professor of logic and psychology at Princeton, he was elevated to the Presidency when Woodrow Wilson, then President became Governor of New Jersey...
Boats of another sort-needle-sharp bodies with eight yellow legs apiece-measured speed, three of the outlandish creatures appearing on a river in Connecticut, two on a lake in New Jersey...