Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold drizzle, on a blocked-off avenue near the big armory in Jersey City one evening last week John Serpico, president of International Fireworks Co., started setting off bombs as fast as he could light them. Slowly a crowd gathered, staring at the huge street banners proclaiming: TIME TO STRIKE AGAINST THE RED MENACE. Children thought it was the Fourth. Around the armory a regiment of Jersey City policemen barked: "Right inside, folks, right inside...
...precision which only the Hague machine could produce. For to Frank Hague, who has kept himself in office for 20 years, often rolling up election majorities that would be a credit to Adolf Hitler, the problem of turning out 16,500 people* for a rally was duck soup. In Jersey City, as the Mayor has said...
...written orders to come early and stay to the bitter end, the faithful began to arrive in free busses by 8 p. m. They filed into the armory to face a banner as big as a barn hung over the speakers' platform : JERSEY CITY 100% AMERICAN. REDS KEEP OUT. After an interlude while entertainers kept the crowd amused, suddenly a green-jacketed, tin-hatted Hudson County Legion Band swung down the aisle blaring The Stars & Stripes Forever, followed by a color guard, a regiment of white-capped Legionnaires. The band wheeled, played the Star-Spangled Banner, a black-gowned...
Finally U. S. Senator Harry Moore, New Jersey's Governor-elect and a Hague henchman, rose and introduced his boss as "the most fearless public official in the country...
...interrupted?" shouted the Mayor. A policeman shouldering through the crowd to find the culprit tapped the elephantine shoulder of Columnist Heywood Broun, Guild President, who denied his guilt. But the Mayor noticed nothing. He was launched on his peroration. Thus last week, was the C., I. O. exorcised from Jersey City...