Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Physicist Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, 70, at Rochester, Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, † from a gall-bladder ailment; Commander Joel Thompson Boone, U.S.N. Medical Corps, at San Diego's Naval Hospital, from an abdominal operation; Ice Skater Jack Dunn in Hollywood, from a streptococcic throat infection ; New Jersey's Governor A. Harry Moore in his Little White House at Sea Girt, N. J., from intestinal influenza...
...Burk, who weighs 195 lb. and has arms like piano legs, propels his shell with an unorthodox short jerk of his arms and a quick kick of his legs, sits up almost straight at the end of each stroke. This freak style he developed two years ago on New Jersey's Rancocas Creek, hard by his father's fruit farm, after rowing in orthodox fashion on the University of Pennsylvania crew. He can row for miles at 40, can maintain a speed of 12 miles an hour over a mile and a quarter course. Last year, after running...
...Before the meeting began, a teacher tossed a firecracker at the American Legion (see col. 2). At an opening session, New York University's short, blunt Professor Alonzo Franklin Myers proposed that U. S. teachers discuss with their pupils, as study materials on dictatorship, the recent testimony of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague on suppressing opponents' speeches. Wriggling under such naming of names, the N. E. A. delegates became even more uncomfortable (though some cheered) when Professor Goodwin Watson, of Columbia's Teachers College, praised the cooperative achievements of Soviet Russia and sneered...
Frown for Hague. Before he concluded, with a Chinese homily, Franklin Roosevelt did something his "liberal" friends have been wishing he would do for some weeks. Indirectly yet unmistakably, he frowned on the Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City, whose suppression of C. I. O. and Communists has earned him national fame as a foe of civil liberties. Said the head of the Democratic Party...
...some 1,500 square miles which includes New York City and adjacent sections of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut live 11,000,000 souls bound together by economic and social ties. Among their many superlatives, the inhabitants of this megalopolis support the greatest medical community on earth-814 hospitals and other agencies for care of the sick, which can hospitalize 70,976 bed-ridden patients at one time...