Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate, Mr. Edwards of wet New Jersey proposed a national referendum? on prohibition, saying: "Of course, Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, believes my proposal to submit to a referendum of the people the question as to whether we are to have wines and beers, is an 'illegal, impracticable proposal...
...swooped over Passaic. It contained a cinema cameraman. Two armored cars lumbered through the streets. They shielded reporters. In steel helmets, with gas-masks strapped to their shoulders, strikers paraded past the mill, two by two. The Passaic Chamber of Commerce asked Governor Harry A. Moore of New Jersey to "mediate" the strike. An inventor, one Edward Moore, offered Mayor McGuire of Passaic his "centrifugal riot gun, which shoots 4,000 shots a minute and is effective at a mile and a half." The offer was not accepted. The police did not try to stop the grey-faced marchers...
...Hamlen Jr. '09, Portland, Maine; A. M. Tyson '90, Maryland; N. F. Ayer '00, Boston; M. P. Whittall '98, Worcester; L. A. Morgan '17, Michigan; E. E. Brown '12, Minnesota; R. W. Snyder '14, Kansas City, Mo.; F. G. Sulloway '05, New Hampshire; R. M. Shreve '08, New Jersey; Evan Hollister '97, Buffalo, N. Y.; R. Moot '05, Schenectady, N. Y.; C. C. Stillman '98, New York City; L. P. Clarke, Special '05-06, Rochester, N. Y.; O. H. Cobb '02, Syracuse, N. Y.; F. H. Kernan '97, Utica, N. Y.; D. B. Holt '90, North Dakota...
...only one in the corps. It is a post ranking below that of Minister and above that of Charge d' Affaires. It is the title of the U. S. Representative, traditionally a Negro, at Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. It is now held by S. P. Hood of New Jersey, who is on sick leave...
...collection of the rare editions of 35 early seventeenth century English poets has recently been given to the College Library, and is now on exhibition in the display cases of the Treasure Room. The gift was made in memory of Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15, a lineal descendant of John Harvard, who was killed in action at Boisleux-Au-Mont on March 30, 1918. The donor has requested that his name be withheld from publication. The addition of this recent collection makes the University collection one of the most complete in existence...