Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry F. Haviland, Jr., East Orange, New Jersey--East Orange High School...
Albert C. Howell, Fort Hancock, New Jersey--Middletown Township High School, Leonardo, New Jersey...
...northern New Jersey sea coast one winter's day in 1868, Rev. William B. Osborne, Methodist minister and onetime Philadelphia marble dealer, left his horse & buggy on the highway, wandered among sand dunes, knelt in prayer. There, during the following summer, he put up a tent, held religious services. Later, with a pious Manhattan brush maker named James A. Bradley, he formed the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, began selling lots. Ocean Grove prospered...
...move in the town's streets, until midnight Sunday. Unless they go to Asbury Park or Bradley Beach, the 35,000 summer residents of Ocean Grove go without ice cream, soda pop, postcards, films and newspapers on Sunday. Ocean Grove is the only dry community on the North Jersey coast, and in 1926 the late John Philip Sousa, concert touring, incurred its permanent displeasure by playing Follow the Swallow after he had been told a march called Wets & Drys would be inacceptable...
Meanwhile in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Mr. Hillman's lieutenants were signing similar contracts (about 20) with individual employers not in the Association. By week's end 8,000 workers had got what Sidney Hillman wanted them to get, 5,000 workers had gone back to work, and the "most peaceful, satisfactory strike" in that shrewd labor leader's history seemed to be drawing to a finish as smooth as silk...