Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statesmen so sure that their cause was just, they were noticeably reluctant to record their votes. Said New Jersey's Eaton: "We ought to stand up and be counted as dignified members of this great body, and not act like a lot of scared cats. . . ." But only 35 wanted a roll-call. In secure anonymity, 237 voted Aye and 95 (who in anonymity could hope to profit nothing) voted No. Then the bill went to the Senate, which can hardly object since the House voted for more Senate clerks...
Mississippi's Ross Collins seized the occasion to recall that once when he needed a Biblical quotation for a speech, he borrowed a Bible from the late devout old Congressman Ackerman of New Jersey. On the flyleaf was written: "I had this Bible in my pocket when I went up with Lindbergh...
...Roxbury, Mass.Donald C. Wetmore Virginia Clapp, CambridgeJohn R. White Nancy Kelly, New YorkRoyal G. Whiting Priscilla Crocker, BrooklineDavid B. Williams Virginia Floyd, MiltonLeonard W. Williams Alice Pinkham, BrooklineGrafton L. Wilson Charlotte Donald, Barnstead, N. Y.Lothrop Withington Jr. Marietta Withington, BrooklineDavid W. Witmer Nancy Wilbur, WinchesterPayson R. Wolff Shirley Merson, Jersey City, N. J.Samuel E. Worthen Eloise Dickey, Atlanta, GeorgiaHoward W. Young Agnes Brown, Newark, N. J.William H. Wood Jr. Virginia Hare, Sharo
...When, in speaking of art, Nelson Rockefeller's tongue slips and he says "geology" for "morphology," he says he wishes he could get the oil business out of his head for a minute. He is director of Creole Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey with properties in Venezuela. He is also (since a year ago) prince and president of the huge landlording enterprise of Rockefeller Center. Nelson's actual function in both offices is under reasonable public suspicion, but it is, increasingly, that of director and president indeed...
Trouncing big Standard Oil of New Jersey, Socony-Vacuum and three smaller companies with tanker fleets was the task taken on by National Maritime Union's tough, rock-fisted President Joe Curran. From Galveston to Portland his pickets patrolled the docks, laid up 75 slick, oil-toting tubs. Purpose: to persuade the lines to increase wages and prefer union men for jobs. Because 14 other companies were willing to dicker, their tankers continued to run without hindrance and the Atlantic Seaboard faced no oil shortage comparable to that threatening in coal (see p. 18). For most people, a surprising...