Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of this word-witchery is to make men's actions also meaningless. Instead of giving souls to trees, modern man, avers Chase, personifies "national honor," "neutrality," "capital," "labor," "corporations." "It would surely be a rollicking sight," he hoots, "to see the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey in pursuit of happiness at a dance hall...
After Mayor Hague's great rally, Lawyer Ernst broadcast a rebuttal in which; referring to his Committee for Defense of Civil Liberties in Jersey City, he announced: "I represent those great Communist leaders of the nation, General Hugh Johnson, Dorothy Thompson, Walter Lippmann...
...however, C. I. O.'s attempt to exorcise Mayor Hague. One of the chief legal problems in fighting Mayor Hague is difficulty of getting arrested in Jersey City. Anyone the Mayor considers undesirable is simply bundled out of town, and for years Arthur Garfield Hays has been battling for the "Constitutional right of every American to be arrested." Last week in Manhattan several days before the great rally, while Mr. Hays was delivering a radio attack on Mayor Hague over station WEVD, an unidentified young woman, passing as a reporter, slipped into the studio. Edging up to the speaker...
Though the Workers Defense League recently managed to hold a small Jersey City meeting in an abandoned church with Norman Thomas and Oswald Garrison Villard as speakers, a C. I. O. meeting was an impossibility. One of Mayor Hague's speakers proclaimed at last week's rally: "I have lived here all my life and have never seen the day when I couldn't say anything I had on my mind." But next day a New York Herald Tribune reporter searched the city without avail for a man in the street who would talk for quotation about...
Almost as difficult as the task of finding out who kidnapped Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. has been the subsequent task of finding out who was responsible for finding Bruno Richard Hauptmann. In 1932, New Jersey posted a reward of $25,000 for the capture of the kidnapper. Ever since Hauptmann was executed two years ago the State has been trying to decide who earned it. This week in Trenton, Governor Harold G. Hoffman announced ten recipients...