Word: boonton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard Club of New Jersey: John A. Carpenter, of Boonton; John L. Felmeth, of Elizabeth; Allen W. Greene, of Passaic; and Harvey P. Sleeper Jr. of Short Hills...
...Manhattan East Side clothing manufacturer. At 11 he was on the stage, giving imitations of stage stars he had never seen. Gracie danced jigs, played brogue parts up & down the Pacific Coast in an Irish troupe. Ten years ago George Burns and Gracie Allen teamed up in vaudeville in Boonton, N. J. at $10 a performance. At first it was Gracie who played the exasperated "straight" to George's fatuous lines. Audiences awarded George's gags a crash of silence, roared at Grade's twittery voice, her air of blissful inanity. They promptly changed places. Three years...
...that the Communist National Textile Workers and the conservative A. F. of L.'s United Textile Workers joined in concerted action. Lawrence police refused permission for the National unionists to convene on the common, arrested seven agitators. But the United Workers were allowed to convene at will. At Boonton, Dover and Paterson (N. J.), Hampden (Mass.) and Philadelphia, members of the well-organized American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers, A. F. of L. affiliate, struck, but their leaders agreed to accept 35% to 40% reductions in wages in return for a guarantee of the 1929 scale...
Svelte, brunette, born at Boonton, N. J. in 1900, Helen Gahagan took up singing after theatrical successes in Young Woodley and Diplomacy. In Germany and Czechoslovakia she sang in Tosca and the part of free-&-easy Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, which was her role the fifth night in Cleveland last week...