Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evening papers followed suit and the process was repeated for the next two days until arrival of strikebreakers imported from New Jersey. They managed to put together an eight-page printed edition of the Republican, but not until four strikebreakers and one striker were mauled, linotype machines battered by vandals and advertisement forms destroyed. A truckload of rotogravure sections from New York was hijacked, burned. Next day all four papers reverted to the typewriter and photo-engraving plant for most of their pages...
...divided up the functions of the Trust so that each subsidiary dominated its field strategically. The Pacific Coast was, and is, ruled by Standard of California, the Midwest by Standard of Indiana, New England and the Atlantic Seaboard by Standard of New York and Standard of New Jersey. Each agreed to keep out of the other's backyard. The backyards became less clearly defined when huge, puissant Standard Oil of New Jersey chafed under restrictions limiting its domestic retail market while non-Rockefeller competitors like Texaco and British-controlled Shell could rove the whole union. In 1929 President Walter...
...boarded a train in New Jersey en route to Japan where he expected to open a six-day bicycle race track. Reginald ("Iron Man") McNamara was arrested on his wife's charge of desertion...
...prosperity which set pious folk to building $200.000,000 worth of churches in 1929. But last week religious statisticians reported new money in sight, the first since church building came to a dead stop in 1931. Examples: C. In Trenton Episcopal Bishop Paul Matthews opened the annual New Jersey diocesan convention by breaking ground for a new $1.000,000 Trinity Cathedral. C, New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning, who has found some $140.000 to resume work on his Cathedral of St. John the Divine, proudly announced that the $30.000,000 edifice would be standing when every other building...
William Seley Crosbie '38, of Exeter, New Hampshire, has been elected manager of the Freshman baseball team for this year and Douglas Malcomson Bowen '38, of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, has been chosen assistant manager, it was announced yesterday by the Harvard Athletic Association. Wiley Edward Mayne '38, of Sanborn, Iowa, was appointed manager of the Second Freshman and House teams...