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...since 1912 has the 5th district gone Democratic in a Congressional election. Last October Ernest R. Ackerman, its Republican Congressman for the past twelve years, died. To succeed him the Republicans nominated Donald H. McLean, local lawyer; the Democrats named Percy Hamilton Stewart. Nominee Stewart, a commuting Manhattan attorney, was once Mayor of Plainfield. His wife is the granddaughter of the late Alexander Smith, carpet tycoon. Since both men were Wet, the Stewart-McLean campaign, brief and bitter, turned only on national issues. Republican McLean asked for a vote of confidence in the Hoover Administration, eulogized the President...
...election day most of the district's 9:30-4:30 Republican commuters-typical of the backbone of their party throughout the land-either went to Manhattan without voting or resentfully cast their ballots for Democrat Stewart. He was elected by 1,900 votes. The late Congressman Ackerman used to carry his district by about 33,000 votes and in 1928 Herbert Hoover rolled up a 49,000-vote majority there. Far & wide the Stewart victory was interpreted as a rebuke to President Hoover, a revolt of worthy middle-class G. O. Partisans against their party because of hard...
...Abrams, Roxbury, M. H. Abrams, Long Branch, N. J., E. A. Ackerman, Spokane, Wash., P. L. Althouse, Reading, Pa., A. B. Baker, Jr., Braintree, D. Band, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., R. L. Behrens, Cleveland Hts., Ohio, R. Berner, Dorchester, W. M. Burdett, L. I. N. Y., W. N. Campbell, Jr., Roslindale, W. A. Chapman, Norwood, Ohio, D. D. Cody, Hartford, Conn., S. L. Cohen, Boston, P. J. Conley, Portland, Me., L. A. Cook, Sandusky, Ohio, E. N. Cooper, Cleveland, Ohio, R. C. Creel, Cambridge, F. J. Daly, South Boston, R. P. Davis, Jr., St. Paul, Minn., O. H. Davis, Mt. Vernon...
Died. Ernest R. Ackerman, 68, U. S. (Republican) Representative since 1919 of the 5th New Jersey District, onetime president of the New Jersey State Senate, member of the House Appropriations Committee; of heart disease; in Plainfield, N. J. An ardent philatelist, he owned $1,000,000 worth of postage stamps, had swapped with King George V and King Victor Emmanuel...
Judges of painting this year were Artists Gari Melchers, Abram Poole, Ezra Winter, Barry Faulkner, Austin Purves Jr. They gave the prize to "Little Savage" Harry Gregory Ackerman, 21, of New York City, a graduate of the National Academy of Design's Manhattan school who worked his way through Yale by winning scholarships. He is a native of Rumania...