Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, when Mayor Quinn was lord of the Cambridge City Hall, he was persuaded by an enterprising salesman of the Signal Service Corporation of New Jersey to buy a traffic signal set. He had no money, cheerfully told the salesman he'd pay "next year...
...course. Last week two other ways were introduced. Tennessee began sending out application blanks for five State schools, accommodating 500 ground pupils each, to be established at major airports. Tuition will be free to physically fit boys & girls over 16. And in the U. S. Senate, New Jersey's Democrat William H. Smathers put forward an $8,000,000 bill to provide 200 flying fields from coast to coast with airplanes, instructors, free schooling...
...Jersey's Assemblymen were puzzled by a bill introduced last month permitting use of the bow & arrow in hunting brant, gallinules, coots, dowitchers, turn-stones, godwits, tattlers, certain other more common game birds and animals. Blind, rosy-cheeked Assemblyman Thomas M. Muir of Plainfield asked Assemblywoman Constance W. Hand, sponsor of the bill: "What is a godwit?" Mrs. Hand: "I'm sure I don't know what godwits are." Assembly Speaker Herbert J. Pascoe, from the chair: "They come from North Plainfield." Assemblymen looked the godwit up, found it is a long-legged, long-billed wading bird...
Hardest hit by the action probably is grid captain Druze who was under consideration for the position of Freshman football coach next fall. Also affected is Ed Franco, All-American last season, who has been mentioned as coach at a New Jersey preparatory school next year
Last week athletic officials took action on the evidence that the seven men, all prominent in sports, had received compensation for expenses in an outside game, playing for a Plainfield, New Jersey church without the college's permission...