Word: j
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secret Service (through Frank J. Wilson, chief) announced: "The thing that sticks out is that no one seemed to want to do them any harm...
...exploded at Black Tom Terminal near Jersey City in 1916, the U. S. was at war with Germany only to the extent of peddling supplies to the Allies. War for the U. S. was still three months away when in 1917 a munitions plant blew up near Kingsland, N. J., eight miles from the ruins of Black...
Speaking last week at Asbury Park, N. J., pure-hearted Frank Murphy made sounds very much like a man planing a 1940 political plank. He viewed with alarm "the astonishing total of approximately 4,000,000 Government employes receiving in salaries nearly $6,000,000,000 a year ! " Then he pointed with pride and sympathy at 30,000,000 U. S. families whose average income is $1,500. "I am convinced," he cried, "that it is the average families, in the main, who foot the bill for this enormous pay roll. . . . Thirteen percent of a family's annual income...
...smart little newspaperman named Julius David Stern, who was almost unknown outside of Camden, N. J., crossed the Delaware River to Philadelphia and with some of the money he had made from his Camden Post and Courier bought the doddering Philadelphia Record from John Wanamaker. At that time the third largest U. S. city had five listless, uncompetitive and politically hogtied papers. No good newspaperman considered Philadelphia worth a stop between Baltimore and Manhattan...
Today, newspapermen look to Philadelphia for excitement and sometimes jobs. J. David Stern is now its senior publisher. It now has only four papers (not counting the pipsqueak tabloid News) and they are engaged in a bitter struggle for survival. Reading from Left to Right, Philadelphia's papers are the morning Record and Inquirer, the evening Ledger and Bulletin. All were making news last week...