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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindbergh ransom bills. The Hauptmann Case ended in Trenton, N. J. last week when Hauptmann paid with his life for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. (see p. 18). When and how the Hoffman Case would end, no man knew last week, but the political life of New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman was indisputably at stake...
...Georgetown, promptly rented it. Disliking solitude, he "thought it would be nice for some of the boys to live with me during the hot spell." Six Representatives moved in with Lobbyist Smith: Kentucky's Cary, Idaho's Clark, Ohio's Fiesinger, Nevada's Scrugham, New Jersey's Sutphin, Indiana's Pettengill. Lobbyist Smith never told "the boys" of his work, because "several of them knew." On the piazza of their home, they rocked back & forth, clucked to each other about Reclamation, the Townsend Plan, other legislation of the day. The Public Utilities Act, strangely...
Last fortnight hard rains scattered spring freshets throughout New England, New York, New Jersey. Last week a huge low-pressure centre, heavy with moisture from the Gulf, formed over Texas, moved slowly northeast over the Appalachian Highlands. The moisture cooled, fell in torrents on a land just emerging from one of its severest winters on record. Its hillsides were blanketed with wet snow, its streams and rivers jammed with thawing ice. The soil was deep-frozen, rock-hard. . The melting rains coursed off the Appalachian hillsides as if they had been sloping tin roofs. Monstrously gorged rivers roared like millraces...
...Paterson last week New Jersey's Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner D. Frederick Burnett was asked to pass on the propriety of a barroom Venus that had outraged the sensibilities of a passing minister's wife. After personal inspection, Commissioner Burnett wrote to the complainant: "The painting is mediocre, the color flat, the style eclectic and the subject trite. I am not concerned, however, with artistry or the lack of it. ... There is no reason why places for the consumption of liquor should not be made comfortable and decorative. . . . Pictures, as well as flowers, may brighten a corner. "Obscene...
...Homewood (Pa.) plant in repairs and replacements. The East Springfield (Mass.) factory concentrates on fractional horsepower motors and the things they operate - fans, vacuum cleaners, food mixers, refrigerator units. Refrigerator cabinets, irons, ranges, toasters are made in Mansfield, Ohio. Westinghouse elevators come from Chicago, Westinghouse bulbs from three New Jersey plants of a subsidiary. Bryant Electric Co., subsidiary, turns out sockets, switches, wiring accessories in Bridgeport, Conn...