Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury. Principal individual beneficiary under his will was Mrs. Margaret Strong de Cuevas, daughter of his eldest daughter Bessie, who died before Rockefeller divided his wealth among his children. Heroically singleminded, he showed no attachment to the things money can buy. He sold his New Jersey and Florida estates to his son for good cash prices, retained only $179,971 worth of miscellaneous property. Samples: $150 worth of lawn furniture, a $45 gold watch, a dozen cocktail glasses ($6), a dozen champagne tumblers ($30), an incomplete set of china ($600). In 97 years Rockefeller accumulated very little to which...
...announced yesterday that Howard P. Mendel '40 of Deal, New Jersey and Lowell House has been elected captain of the 1939 soccer team. Mendel, a 190 pound outside-left, has been on the regular Varsity team for the past two years...
...Jersey's supreme court upheld indictments of Meyer C. Ellenstein, Democratic mayor of Newark, N. J., and 29 other persons charged with fraudulent municipal land deals...
There they discovered that they were the only holders of the winning combination, were handed a check for $6,754.50 for their $2 investment. Reporters quickly realized that only one parimutuel payoff in U. S. turf history had been larger: $7,205 won by a Jersey City truck driver at Miami's Tropical Park three years...
...medicine; Kenneth M. A. Perry, London, research fellow in medicine; Rulon W. Rawson, Chicago, Illinois, research fellow in medicine and assistant physician to the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital; Francis R. Dieuaide, Peiping Union Medical College, China, research associate in biological chemistry; Philip F. Partington, East Orange, New Jersey, research fellow in medicine...