Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington one day last week New Jersey's Representative Charles Aubrey Eaton sat down at his House desk, began ruffling through the mail piled up during his vacation. Opening a letter from the White House, he stared for a moment, then crowed with delight. White-thatched Representative Eaton, a Baptist minister from 1893 to 1919, has since 1925 been an ardently Republican member of the House, distinguished of late for his persistent heckling of New Dealers. The White House letter, addressed to "the Rev. Charles A. Eaton," was a copy of President Roosevelt's famed appeal...
With last year's victory to defend, the Crimson ten sent down to New Jersey will be a much weaker combination than that which toed the mark on the home course in 1934; while the Orange and Black will line up an unusually powerful contingent. Furthermore, Harvard harriers, used to racing along the level banks of the Charles River, have always found the hilly terrain of Princeton to be a decided disadvantage...
Leading the list of clubs in number of scholarships awarded is the Harvard Club of Chicago, with four. Three scholarships were awarded by the Harvard Club of New Jersey; two each by the Associated Harvard Clubs, the Harvard Clubs of Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, New York City, Philadelphia, and St. Louis; and one each by thirteen other Harvard Clubs...
...Jersey: William H. Felmeth '39, Elizabeth, N. J.; William A. McFadden '39, Rahway, N. J.; Riggs Stewart '39, Crawford...
...scandalous "Erie War" of 1866-68. Allied with Gould and Fisk, Dan Drew dumped "watered" Erie stock on the market, sheared Vanderbilt of millions while selling Erie short. When their arrest was ordered. Drew, Gould and Fisk took $6,000,000 in greenbacks, retreated to a fortified Jersey City hotel. While the Press gasped at such, blatant rascality, the three used their vast profits to launch an assault upon bank credit, foreign exchange, stock prices, to the ruination of thousands of investors...