Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undampened in spirit, sat a new bevy of New Dealers, 100,000 strong. National Chairman Farley had rallied them to adorn the Rooseveltian triumph; 200,000 tickets had been printed; Philadelphians by the thousand had been enlisted at booths where the tickets were distributed free; Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City had delivered legions of his well-drilled yeomanry. The fresh army of enthusiasts rose and roared acclaim as Franklin Roosevelt marched out upon the platform on the arm of Son James. Standing at the rostrum he and John Nance Garner clasped hands and raised them aloft-the Democratic ticket...
...years. No stranger to Fordham, he taught there as a scholastic, directed student dramatics, organized a play shop. After his ordination he studied educational methods at the Sorbonne, Oxford, Cambridge, Perugia, Louvain. In 1930 the Jesuit Father General sent him to reopen St. Peter's College in Jersey City, N. J., closed since the War. For his first 80 students, Father Gannon rented four offices from the Chamber of Commerce, an adjoining kitchen for a chemistry laboratory. Last fortnight St. Peter's, humming with an enrollment of 400, dedicated its first collegiate building, Gannon Hall...
...orchestra, the Essex County Symphony, completed its second week of concerts under Erno Rapée in a stadium near Newark, N. J. Audiences discovered that no longer need they suffer from New Jersey's mosquitoes, thanks to a new larvicide with which the air was sprayed...
Asked what he would do with his $1,500 soldiers' bonus. New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman cracked back at the Princeton undergraduates who have been baiting him for months: "I'm going to send my daughter to Princeton, so she can join the Veterans of Future Wars...
...Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman was threatened with impeachment because he (1 denounced the Constitution of the U. S., 2 supported the Wagner Labor Act, 3 insulted a U. S. district judge, misused WPA funds, S made extraordinary attempts to save the life of Bruno Hauptmann...