Word: jersey
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Thomas Armstrong, Vice-President of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and Herman Brock, Vice-President of the Guaranty Trust Company; are additions to Table 1, on Latin-American relations...
Consequently, the newspapers of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton take great pleasure in removing from the presses the Fourth Edition, Revised, of the H-Y-P Conference. Down where the Gothic spires of Princeton rise so incredibly from the flat tidal lands of New Jersey, men will examine the vital processes which motivate a nation; The Crimson hopes that Harvard's intellectual aristocracy will attend the examination...
Last week New Jersey's Mary Teresa Norton, chairman of the House Labor Committee, offered Elmer Andrews' amendments to Congress. Doing so, she conceded that the Act as it stands "has tended to create hardship on employers, reduce employment and generally dislocate the flow of business in a particular industry...
...Orson Welles, in his now famous broadcast of October 30. 1938, had announced not that the Martians had landed in New Jersey, but that a mosquito called Anopheles gambiae, a native of Africa, had arrived on the American continent, there would have been no public alarm. . . . But Anopheles gambiae is potentially a much more dangerous invader than the Martians would have been. H. G. Wells's Martians, it will be remembered, were unable to adjust themselves to life on this planet and quickly died...
Died. Jacob Maged, 54, Jersey City tailor who in 1934 was jailed for three days because he charged 35? instead of 40? to press a suit of clothes, thus violating an NRA code; of cancer; in Jersey City...