Word: hudsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brass tacks are what politics is made of, and last week the Democratic high command at Washington got down to them with Frank Hague, perpetual mayor of Jersey City and boss of populous Hudson County. So sharp is the contrast between ironfisted, authoritarian Boss Hague and the libertarian New Deal that last summer Franklin Roosevelt felt obliged to reprimand the Boss publicly, if anonymously, for his suppression of civil liberties in Jersey City (TIME, July 4). The Department of Justice even went to the extent of sending G-Men to investigate Socialist Norman Thomas' complaint about being bums-rushed...
...United Air Lines and Bell Telephone Laboratories also were at work on safety. One afternoon last week United Air Lines' flying laboratory, went up from Newark Airport carrying a new type of altimeter mounted beside a regular barometric altimeter. Up the Hudson River it flew at 800 feet, both dials registering alike. But as it crossed towering George Washington Bridge, the reading on the new altimeter dropped to 500 feet. Few miles farther on the plane banked sharply, headed for the Palisades, still flying at 800 feet by the barometric altimeter. As it approached the sheer bluff the other...
...Norseman may have stayed in Greenland for a few weeks or several years. Eventually he embarked again, sailed westward through Hudson Strait into Hudson Bay, whose waters his party found teeming with cod and salmon, the shores abounding with caribou, musk ox, ducks, geese, loons. From the southern shore of Hudson Bay, they journeyed inland through a chain of lakes and rivers, finally started overland on an Indian portage which leads to Lake Superior. In Ontario, some two miles from a place now named Beardmore, the Norseman died or was killed by Indians. He was buried there with his sword...
...remote kitchen corner, cut down a huge servant's bathroom to provide a servant's closet, enlarged the living room a trifle (to 20 ft. by 36 ft). Neither amateur nor professional provided more than one closet for two master bedrooms. Facing west over the Hudson toward Father Divine, the "dream house" may be ready for occupancy in time for Franklin Roosevelt to hear the election returns there, unless he outlaws from it radios as well as telephones...
...Wally's favorite models was Sergeant Alexander Woollcott, star reporter for The Stars and Stripes. Woollcott, elegant of uniform and gait, swooning at the sound of a tire blowout, was pictured with Reporter Hudson Hawley, whom Wally made famous as the "Salut-ing Demon." In the hectic offices of The Stars and Stripes, Wally found other models: Editor Harold Ross, now editor of The New Yorker; Poet Tip Bliss, whose dog tried to bite General Pershing on his only visit to the office; Colyumnist Franklin Pierce Adams (F. P. A.); Mark Watson, now Sunday editor of the Baltimore...