Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been sent are Lincol Filene, Chairman of Filene's department store in Boston, W. Averill Harriman, Chairman of the Board of the Union pacific Railroad, Kermit Roosevelt '09, president of the Roosevelt Steamship line, and Walter C. Teagle, Chairman of the Board of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey...
...nominations for Directors of the Alumni Association are Phillips Ketchum '06, Boston, law; Gilbert G. Browne '10, New York, finance; Richard C. Floyd '11, Brookline, manufacturing; John S. Fleek '15, Cleveland, finance; Edward W. Mahan '16, Lakewood, New Jersey, education; Laurence M. Lombard '17, Boston, law; Frederick W. Warburg '19, New York, finance; and Barry Bingham '18, Louisvile, journalist...
...Christmas Day a few bottles of wine belonging to Graziano Taite of Jersey City disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Graziano got very angry, and in the resultant brawl a giant Negro called "Smiling Joe" Thomas was stabbed in the heart. Smiling Joe, who is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 220 pounds, was rushed to a hospital at Kearny, N. J., where doctors cut through his chest wall, opened the pericardium or heart envelope so that the heart lay visibly beating before their eyes, and delicately extracted a three-inch piece of broken knife blade. They took care...
Similar in design to the Holland Tunnel -under the Hudson between lower Manhattan and Jersey City, completed in 1927 and this year used by 13,000,000 vehicles (at 50?& up)-the Lincoln Tunnel was started in 1934 and has cost about $43,000,000 to date. Unlike the two-tube Holland Tunnel, the Lincoln Tunnel has completed so far only one 21-ft. 6-in. tube, now carrying two-way traffic. The other will be finished in 1941, when each tube will carry one-way traffic. The completed structure lies under 20 feet of silt, 75 feet below...
...tedious ferries, the George Washington Bridge or the Holland Tunnel. The Holland Tunnel route is not so speedy as the bridge route. It will now be even quicker to use the East Side express highway & the Lincoln Tunnel than to use the bridge & U. S. No. 1 on the Jersey side. This may take some revenue away from the Holland Tunnel and the bridge, only completed in 1931. but the Port of New York Authority runs them all. is competing only with itself...