Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devoutly for an alien cause, Pulaski fought as a Brigadier-General in the American Revolution. He was killed at Savannah in 1779, and is memorialized by a fine equestrian statue in bronze in Washington and by a titanic $21,000,000 elevated highway over the filthy flats of New Jersey...
...pumps slowly chugging in the exhausted fields of Pennsylvania, with the wells sinking two miles deep in California and Louisiana, with rigs floating in barges penetrating the mud of the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, with its 96,612 miles of pipe lines running from Oklahoma to New Jersey and crisscrossing the continent like veins under its skin, with the fields of East or West Texas or central Louisiana calling for supply houses at Fort Worth, Tulsa, Corpus Christi, with the thousands of flares burning the escaping gas, hissing as they burn, lighting up the derricks and stretching...
When it was over they carried Lou to a hospital with a good start on his first cauliflower ear. Tony went back to his New Jersey barroom, with his puffy eyes on Detroit and a great bully-boy future. Said he: "I'll knock out dat bum Louis in two rounds...
Most startling chapter in Dr. Butler's autobiography is "On Keeping Out of Public Office." "The pressure upon me to accept public office," says he, "began early and has been unremitting all these years." Offices he says he has turned down: New Jersey legislator, U. S. Representative and Senator, U. S. Commissioner of Education, U. S. Ambassador to London or Berlin, U. S. Secretary of State (offered by President Harding), New York City's Mayor, New York's Governor. But Republican politicians have long known there was one office Nicholas Murray Butler coveted. Biggest Butler boom...
Because his father had long been a power in New Jersey Republican politics, young Butler planned to study law, go into politics himself. But Columbia's President Frederick A. P. Barnard persuaded him into pedagogy. He lived to fulfill Dean Burgess' prediction, to expand Columbia from 5,000 to more than 32,000 students, to turn down the presidencies of Stanford and the State universities of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado, Washington and California. Dr. Butler reports that Governor Leland Stanford of California offered him $25,000 to be Stanford's first president, when Dr. Butler...