Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Hal Ulen has selected 11 of his best swim squad members to make the trip tomorrow to New Brunswick, New Jersey, at the Rutgers pool, for the annual National Collegiate A.A. championships...
...South America, is a one-crop country-coffee forming about 95% of her exports. Since 1935, with the coffee market glutted, she has disposed of her crop largely by barter with Germany, getting textiles, hardware in return. Last week the 13,173-sq. mi. nation, the size of New Jersey and Connecticut, decided she needed airplanes for training purposes, for ferrying army freight over her mountains and for remote control over rebel bands in the interior. There appeared to be no better way to get them than by a swap of her coffee. To Italy she agreed to send...
...Author. Only son of a prominent New Jersey lawyer and politician, Edmund Wilson has had a more varied career than most critics. He served in the Intelligence Service during the War, was a reporter on the New York Sun, managing editor of Vanity Fair, an editor of the New Republic for eight years, where he alternated his scholarly essays with firsthand accounts of strikes and political conventions. Absentminded, round-faced, stuttering slightly when animated, Wilson is a conscientious, molelike conversationalist. He sometimes surprises people by popping up from a topic they thought had been abandoned, picking up the conversation precisely...
Died. James Howell Post, 78, who rose from a $3-per-week office boy to be chairman of the board of a $26,000,000 industry. National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey; after a short illness; in Brooklyn...
...Journalists George and Gilbert Seldes, onetime Pennsylvania Congressman Benjamin Colder, Dean Jacob Goodale Lipman of the Rutgers College of Agriculture (New Brunswick, N. J.), Judge Jacob Panken of Manhattan, Judge Theodore Rosen of Philadelphia, Judge Joseph B. Perskie of New Jersey's supreme court- all were once Jewish farm boys...