Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrats attempt to unhorse Kentucky's plodding, obedient "Dear Alben" Barkley as Majority Leader? To do so would in effect amount to purging the Senate of Roosevelt leadership. Last week, in an otherwise unimportant newspaper spat between Montana's utterly independent Democrat Burton K. Wheeler and New Jersey's obedient Democrat William Smathers, came an answer. Declaring that there would be no attempted Barkley ouster, Mr. Wheeler said: "Why should there be? He leads only [Indiana's] Minton and [Washington's] Schwellenbach. We have the votes to remove him if we like, but we would...
Last week Dr. Sharp began to build a fourth LIFE Camp on a real frontier-a pocket of virgin forest only 68 miles from Manhattan. The site: a 1,000-acre tract in the Kittatinny Mountains of northern New Jersey. Part of an estate given to Lord Rutherford by King George III in pre-Revolutionary times, the tract was presented to LIFE Camps by anonymous donors. It abounds in deer, wild fruit and nuts, has a 40-acre lake (Mashi-pacong), is surrounded by 25,000 acres of State parks and forests. With stone and timber on the land...
...average of 20 tournaments a year since she won her first prize in 1895. Now married to a Princeton banker, Dorothy lona Campbell Kurd Howe, 55, is still as British as tweed, plays golf three times a week, knits stockings, rides a bicycle, helps her husband raise Jersey cows...
...plant-hunting in the tropics, he was laid low by an infection, almost died. Two of his associates, who realized that he might have taken to his grave the rich story of his experiences, took him back to the U. S., plumped him down on a quiet New Jersey farm, furnished him with a stenographer...
There have been three published pictures of Orlando Franklin Weber. One, taken in 1899 when he was a bike racer good enough to be called "The Pride of Milwaukee," showed him crouched over his pedals in a striped jersey. The other two were taken surreptitiously in recent years, after the short-tempered "Pride of Milwaukee" attained front rank among U. S. tycoons...