Word: jerseyman
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...Every Jerseyman is proud of Roebling's. John August Roebling was a bearded, philosophy-loving German engineer who led a group of his friends to the U.S. in 1831 to escape political and religious oppression. Once the farming community they established at Saxonburg, Pa. was a success, he went back to engineering, made America's first wire rope. Soon he adapted it to building suspension bridges. After he spanned the gorge of the Niagara River at Buffalo in 1850, he and his company were famous...
...Jerseyman Henderson, tough, veteran New Dealer, was the speaker of the evening. For nearly an hour, his heart aglow, he talked about the system of free enterprise, pledged it should not perish...
...years the Morristown (N. J.) Jerseyman (circulation: 6,686) supported Prohibition. Last June U. S. Wets rejoiced at and nationally publicized the fact that Publisher Edward S. Little had changed the little paper's policy by writing this editorial: "We salute the 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States as an experiment undertaken as a glorious adventure: we say farewell to our journalistic support of it as we would say farewell to a shattered ideal. But a shattered ideal is not of much practical use." Last week the Jerseyman floundered into receivership, but not, Publisher Little insisted...
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