Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defense of civil liberty and free speech. In the recent strike of garment workers at Paterson, N. J., he attempted to hold a meeting in a half, oposed by the police, and them led the strikers to city ban where he spoke for free speech and read the New Jersey State Bill of Rights. The police charged the mob and Mr. Baldwin was later sentenced to jail. Mr. Baldwin's activities as a pacifist during the World War also attracted the attention of the nation...
...Jersey once had 100,000 members, now has perhaps 60,000. Its political power is not great. There has been a large amount of internal dissension. It still holds spectacular out-of-door meetings...
Mosquito Bane. At Atlantic City, N. J., Dr. William Rudolphs of Rutgers told the 13th annual convention of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association that, after four years' study, hs had found he was safe for two or three hours from the itch-producing proboscides of mosquitoes, no matter how ravenous, after smearing on his epidermis: 14 units of ordinary insect-powder extract and 96 units of vaseline, cold cream or face-powder...
Born in 1822, Mr. Stewart went into engineering, clerked on New York's education board, was an insurance actuary and in 1853 founded the U. S. Trust Co. President Lincoln appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in 1864. Princeton (then College of New Jersey) secured him as a trustee four years later. In October, 1910, when Woodrow Wilson resigned his presidential chair at Princeton to become Governor of New Jersey, Mr. Stewart as senior trustee was called upon to serve as president pro tempore until the inauguration of Dr. Hibben in January, 1912. Known as Wall Street's oldest...
Mark Requa of San Francisco predicted an oil famine in 1934 if new discoveries and improved methods do not come in. Walter C. Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey deprecated any great danger, pointed to new saving methods. Henry L. Doherty, gas expert, maintained oil was being burned wastefully, produced wastefully. His researches show that oil pools should be operated as units to maintain below ground the pressure of gasses dissolved in petroleum, making it more fluid. Much oil is now lost on subterranean sands whence it cannot be extracted because of its viscosity when released from gas pressure...