Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barnett ("The value of a man's service to society is measured by the number of jobs he has provided for his fellow men") must have been thinking of Frank Hague. How we all have been maligning Jersey's "Public Benefactor...
...Frank Hague, mayor and boss of Jersey City, testified last week in Federal Court at, Newark in defense of his hardboiled suppression of C. I. O. in his domain (TIME, June 13). His argument: although his ordinance requiring a permit for the distribution of handbills was unconstitutional, his police in seizing handbills from their distributors and ejecting "invaders'" from Jersey City were doing their duty. preserving the peace and protecting such visitors from violence. To demonstrate Jersey City's "Americanism," Boss Hague led a parade of 16,000 National Guardsmen, A. F. of L. Unionists, war veterans...
...unusual is the conferring of honorary degrees on Government bigwigs. Last week's crop included Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy (St. John's University, Brooklyn), New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman (Syracuse), Wisconsin's U. S. Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. (University of Wisconsin), Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Temple). But this year's commencements produced a remarkable political echo. Honorary degrees went to no fewer than three of President Roosevelt's opponents in last year's battle over the Supreme Court-Michigan's Senator Arthur...
...with no evidence against his fellow Commissioners. He did repeat the names of a half-dozen well-known lobbyists. Nevertheless, the Rules Committee, led by its hard-boiled chairman, Tammanyite John Joseph O'Connor, voted for an investigation. In doing so they overrode protests by FCC Chairman Frank Ramsay McNinch, who well knew that a comprehensive investigation would involve not only broadcasters but also his Commission. He is already conducting a monopoly investigation...
When debonair, mustachioed Elisha Huson Waterman last week became kingpen of L. E. Waterman Co., the 2,000 astonished employes of this famed old fountain-pen concern could well imagine his father, Frank Dan Waterman, turning furiously in his grave. Thirteen years ago, crusty, conservative President Frank Dan kicked Elisha out of his $6,500 job in the company and banished him from the family. Last month, when bitter old Frank Dan died, he left Elisha a mere $100. Scarcely was the Waterman ink dry on the will when Elisha quietly played the trump card he had held...